US Patent Issued to NEC on Feb. 25 for "Server device, conference assistance system, and conference assistance method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,237,937, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Server device, conference assistance system, and conference assistance method" was invented by Shin Norieda (Tokyo), Kenta Fukuoka (Tokyo), Masashi Yoneda (Tokyo) and Shogo Akasaki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a server device with which a participant in a conference can easily acquire information pertaining to another participant. The server device is provided with an acquisition unit and an information provision unit. The acquisition unit acquires a profile of each of a plurality of users using a conference assistance system. The information provision u...