ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,827, issued on June 24, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Techniques for automatic cross-device meeting authentication" was invented by Ronald Ho (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Christopher Paul David Johnson (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technology for automatic cross-device meeting authentication. An example method involving initializing, by a first computing device, a real-time meeting communication session, receiving information indicative of a mobile computing device of a user being in a physical presence of the first computing device, wherein the user is associated with the mobile device and a...