US Patent Issued to Hewlett-Packard Development on July 1 for "Establishing private communication channels" (American, Brazilian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,235, issued on July 1, was assigned to Hewlett-Packard Development Co. LP (Spring, Texas).

"Establishing private communication channels" was invented by Rafael Dal Zotto (Porto Alegre, Brazil) and Gareth Westlake (Spring, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples are described herein for establishing private communication channels. In various examples, camera-acquired eye tracking data if participants in a first video conference call may be monitored. Based on the monitoring, it may be determined that gazes of a subset of the participants collectively satisfy a criterion, wherein the subset includes a plurality of the participants...