US Patent Issued to Konica Minolta on Oct. 14 for "Control apparatus, conference system, and recording medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,320, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Konica Minolta Inc. (Tokyo).

"Control apparatus, conference system, and recording medium" was invented by Tomohiro Iwase (Fuchu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control apparatus includes a hardware processor that obtains information on volume of a sound in a conference room detected by a sound detection device that detects the sound in the conference room during a conference in the conference room, derives an index value that represents risk of information leakage due to sound leakage, based at least on the obtained information on the volume of the sound in the conference room, and caus...