US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on March 4 for "Identifying co-located devices within a teleconferencing session" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,770, issued on March 4, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Identifying co-located devices within a teleconferencing session" was invented by Henrik Fahlberg Lundin (Sollentuna, Sweden) and Mans Gustaf Sebastian Ullberg (Stockholm).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A participant computing device connected to a teleconferencing session receives mixed audio data from a teleconference computing system orchestrating the session. The mixed audio data comprises a mix of audio captured by other devices connected to the session. The mixed audio and audio captured by the other devices prior to receipt of the mixed audio data are ...