ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,431, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Mitel Networks Corp. (Kanata, Canada).

"Scheduled conference recording" was invented by Anilkumar Yalawarmath (Attiguppe Bengaluru, India) and Logendra Naidoo (Ottawa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for virtual meetings allow a recipient of a request to attend a meeting alternate options to: not attend the meeting but record all or part(s) of the meeting, or to attend the meeting and record all or part(s) of the meeting. In an embodiment, a conferencing system comprising a conferencing server is in communication with a participant device. The conferencing server sends the p...