ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,671, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Dynamic energy-saving video transmissions for sustainable collaboration" was invented by Carlos Pignataro (Cary, N.C.) and Nagendra Kumar Nainar (Morrisville, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, systems, methods, and processes for dynamically reducing the size of a video transmission are described herein. An energy-saving video transmission device can include a controller, a memory, a communication port coupled with at least a second device, and a virtual meeting logic configured to establish a virtual meeting with a video transmission. The vi...