US Patent Issued to Hewlett-Packard Development on Jan. 13 for "Reconfiguration of hubs to connect peripheral devices in video conferencing systems" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,368, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Hewlett-Packard Development Co. LP (Spring, Texas).

"Reconfiguration of hubs to connect peripheral devices in video conferencing systems" was invented by Roger Dale Benson (Spring, Texas) and Richard ShiJian Lin (Spring, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example apparatus may include a hub and a control unit. The hub may include a first input/output (I/O) connection, a second I/O connection, and a third I/O connection. The first I/O connection may connect to a peripheral device of a video conferencing system, the second I/O connection may connect to a first conferencing application, and t...