ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,765, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Spatial audio conversational analysis for enhanced conversation discovery" was invented by Spencer G. Fowers (Duvall, Wash.), David Anthony Tittsworth (Gig Harbor, Wash.) and Amber Dawn Hoak (Silverdale, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for providing enhanced teleconferencing. An example method includes receiving audio streams from a plurality of client devices of participants of a teleconference; converting the audio streams for a first conversation within the teleconference into first text; converting the audio stream...