ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,581, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Videoconference automatic mute control system" was invented by Huib Victor Kleinhout (Upplands Vasby, Sweden), Niklas Blum (Stockholm), John Fredric Lindstrom (Stockholm), Tomas Gunnarsson (Stockholm) and Christian Schuldt (Stockholm).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods of the present disclosure are directed to automatic control of mute controllers for participants in videoconferences. For example, a method for automatically controlling a mute control associated with a participant during a videoconference includes obtaining communication data a...