ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,081, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Meeting information sharing privacy tool" was invented by Dikla Dotan-Cohen (Netanya, Israel), Ido Mordechai Priness (Kiryat Ono, Israel) and Tomer Hermelin (Ramat Hasharon, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments disclosed herein are directed to computing technology for programmatically sanitizing unwanted content that is shared in a meeting. The unwanted content may be sanitized in real-time and in a meeting presentation. In an implementation, the unwanted content is detected, and a determining a sensitivity mitigation action is ...