US Patent Issued to Hewlet-Packard Development on Sept. 30 for "Participant sorting in video conferencing" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,079, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Hewlet-Packard Development Co. LP (Spring, Texas).

"Participant sorting in video conferencing" was invented by Pei Hsuan Li (Spring, Texas), Rose Hedderman (Spring, Texas), Sarah Shiraz (Spring, Texas) and Yu Chun Huang (Spring, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example non-transitory machine-readable storage medium comprising instructions executable by a processing resource of a computing device to cause the computing device to: receive a video feed of a participant in a video conference; identify the participants within the video feed; determine a probability that a characteristic is ...