ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,735, issued on June 3, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Network bandwidth determination for adaptive web-conference rendering and transmission" was invented by Jun Su (Beijing), Peng Hui Jiang (Beijing), Gang Tang (Nanjing, China), Guang Han Sui (Beijing) and Yan Zhou (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for transmitting web-conference content over a network connection is disclosed. In one embodiment, such a method conducts a web conference over a network connection. The method monitors characteristics of the network connection in order to determine bandwidth of the network connection ...