US Patent Issued to Meta Platforms Technologies on Feb. 25 for "Generating a summary of a conversation between users for an additional user in response to determining the additional user is joining the conversation" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,238,059, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Generating a summary of a conversation between users for an additional user in response to determining the additional user is joining the conversation" was invented by Andrew Lovitt (Redmond, Wash.) and Scott Phillip Selfon (Kirkland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication system actively monitors a conversation between users in an environment. Once a threshold condition occurs (e.g., client device within a threshold distance of a room where the conversation is occurring, the user enters a chatroom via the client device), the ...