ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,922, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to NCA Holding BV (Amsterdam).

"Data modeling for virtual collaboration environment" was invented by Daniel Erasmus (Amsterdam), David Marvit (San Mateo, Calif.), Rein Brune (Somerset West, South Africa), Petrus Pelser (Langebaan, South Africa), Ian van Wyk (Somerset West, South Africa) and Floris Fok (Amsterdam).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example may include identifying an initial context of a meeting based on one or more data inputs received from one or more participant devices operated by a plurality of meeting participants, querying remote data sources to identify one or more additional co...