US Patent Issued to Google on Feb. 4 for "Audio-based polling during a conference call discussion" (New York, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,219,097, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Audio-based polling during a conference call discussion" was invented by Emily Burd (New York) and Akshat Sharma (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more audio files including a recording of one or more verbal statements provided by a first participant of the conference call are obtained. A determination is made that the recorded one or more verbal statements include a question associated with audio-based polling of a set of second participants of the conference call. Response data indicating one or more responses to the question provided b...