ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,216,888, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Automation of permission controls for group messages" was invented by Amer Aref Hassan (Kirkland, Wash.) and Wei-Chen Chen (Redmond, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system provides permission controls for group messages. A system can support user accessibility by the use of a permissions that indicates that a user has accessibility needs with respect to a voice input. When a user is known to have accessibility issue with providing a voice input, a system data structure, such as a Teams directory, can indicate when specific users have sp...