US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Sept. 16 for "Lobby chat with external anonymous guests" (Washington, Texas, New York, Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,630, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Lobby chat with external anonymous guests" was invented by Hayley Christine Farmer (Lowell, Ind.), Cassandra Nichole Jackson (Houston), Andres Mauricio Santamaria Borda (Seattle), Shyama Prasad Hembram (Bothell, Wash.), Ai He (Sammamish, Wash.), Johnson J. Lee (Seattle), Sonal Aggarwal (Dallas), James Patrick Frisby (Dallas), Christopher Jordan Bohlin (Arlington, Texas), Karthik Venkataramana Pemmaraju (Irving, Texas), Wenjing Liu (Brooklyn, N.Y.) and Feven Debela (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques for lobby cha...