US Patent Issued to Intel on Oct. 21 for "Methods and apparatus to enable private verbal side conversations in virtual meetings" (American, Mexican Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,388, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Methods and apparatus to enable private verbal side conversations in virtual meetings" was invented by Hector Cordourier Maruri (Guadalajara, Mexico), Jose Rodrigo Camacho Perez (Guadalajara, Mexico), Julio Cesar Zamora Esquivel (West Sacramento, Calif.), Willem Beltman (West Linn, Ore.), Paulo Lopez Meyer (Zapopan, Mexico) and Alejandro Ibarra Von Borstel (Manchaca, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example apparatus including processor circuitry to execute instructions to join a video conferencing meeting including a first audio channel, the first aud...