ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,956, issued on July 15, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Video conference content auto-retrieval and focus based on learned relevance" was invented by Victor Carbune (Winterthur, Switzerland), Daniel Keysers (Stallikon, Switzerland) and Thomas Deselaers (Zurich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided that can include determining, based on a plurality of media streams of a plurality of client devices participating in a video conference, a subject being discussed during the video conference at a point in time, and providing one or more inputs to a machine learning model, the one or more inputs comprising...