ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,074, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Message generation for detected disruption" was invented by Mark Delaney (Raleigh, N.C.), Arnold Weksler (Raleigh, N.C.), John C Mese (Cary, N.C.), Nathan Peterson (Oxford, N.C.) and Russell Speight VanBlon (Raleigh, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One embodiment provides a method, the method including: detecting, during a meeting, a disruption within an environment surrounding a user, wherein the meeting is facilitated using a communication medium and comprises at least one participant remote to the user; determining, utilizing at least one sens...