ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,643, issued on May 13, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Acceptance-based meeting insights and action recommendations" was invented by Yaming Liu (Sammamish, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples provide acceptance-based meeting insights and action recommendations associated with a meeting prior to a scheduled occurrence of the meeting using meeting invitee responses. A meeting insights manager analyzes meeting response data for meeting invitees a threshold time-period prior to the start time of the meeting. A score is generated based on the number of accept and decline responses received f...