ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,539, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Meeting inclusion and hybrid workplace insights" was invented by Ananthatejas Raghavan (Redmond, Wash.), Cathleen Kong (Seattle), Kayla Mailinh Tran (Redmond, Wash.), Preeti Goel (Kirkland, Wash.), Shamsi Tamara Iqbal (Sammamish, Wash.), Danielle Amanda Scott (Irvine, Calif.), Maja Vladan Milosavljevic (Lexington, Mass.), Wendy Guo (Edmonds, Wash.), Lisa Sarah Thomas (Bellevue, Wash.), Vivian Caroline Hua (Bellevue, Wash.), Shruti Poddar (Redmond, Wash.) and Julian Alexander Zbogar-Smith (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The di...