US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Aug. 12 for "Object for pre- to post-meeting collaboration" (Washington, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,175, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Object for pre- to post-meeting collaboration" was invented by Shiraz J. Cupala (Snohomish, Wash.), Eric Hull (Seattle), Kevin Daniel Morrison (Arlington, Mass.), Lan Ye (Redmond, Wash.), Shivaram Prabhakar (Bothell, Wash.), Julia Foran (Kirkland, Wash.), James Paul Kardos Jr. (Sammamish, Wash.) and Szymon Madejczyk (Sammamish, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Traditionally, meetings are widely utilized in business and personal communications, whether in-person and/or virtual. Organizing such meetings typically involves multiple exchange...