US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on July 1 for "Audio communication device with novel visual indications and adjustable muting" (California, Washington, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,631, issued on July 1, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Audio communication device with novel visual indications and adjustable muting" was invented by David Justin Rappaport (San Francisco), Russell I. Sanchez (Seattle), Flavio Protasio Ribeiro (Bellevue, Wash.), Woo Suk Lee (Fort Lee, N.J.), Bryan K. Mamaril (Seattle) and Katherine M. Bailey (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure relate to an audio communication device with novel visual indications and adjustable muting. In examples, an audio communication device is provided. The audio communication device inclu...