ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,391, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Processing participant input in a virtual meeting to determine effects to render in the virtual meeting" was invented by Jun Su (Beijing), Yang Liang (Beijing), Su Liu (Austin, Texas) and James Nash (Lewisville, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a computer program product, system, and method for processing participant input in a virtual meeting to determine effects to render in the virtual meeting. A natural language processor (NLP) processes a sentence to determine a structural representation of the sentence comprising a su...