ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,868, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Merry Electronics(Shenzhen) Co. Ltd. (ShenZhen, China).

"Method for switching audio reception in video conference and video conferencing system" was invented by Shuo-Yu Wang (Taichung, Taiwan), Chan-An Wang (Taichung, Taiwan), Hsiu-Ling Lin (Taichung, Taiwan) and Chung-Yi Huang (Taichung, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for switching audio reception in a video conference and a video conferencing system are provided. In a case of starting the video conference, relative positions of participants in a conference space and behavioral events of participants are obtained by identifying a...