ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,091, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Interactive Solutions Corp. (Tokyo).
"Meeting assistance system" was invented by Kiyoshi Sekine (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "[Problem] To provide a meeting assistance system capable of imparting bidirectionality and a sense of unity to a meeting. [Solution] A meeting assistance system includes: a presentation document storage unit 3 that stores a presentation document; an authority, imparting unit 5 that grants document manipulation rights to a participant; a document sharing unit 7 for sharing the presentation document with participants; and a presentation document updating unit 9 tha...