US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Jan. 27 for "Enhanced control of communications for back-to-back conference calls sharing a common bridge configuration" (Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,864, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Enhanced control of communications for back-to-back conference calls sharing a common bridge configuration" was invented by Amer Aref Hassan (Kirkland, Wash.), Gareth Lyndon Eadred Bridges (Duvall, Wash.) and Shaun Paul Dunning (San Clemente, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed techniques are directed to a meeting-based or invitation-based conference lobby feature during a back-to-back conference call, while the same bridge arrangement or bridge configuration is provided across multiple meetings. If a previous meeting is stil...