ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,262, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to ObjectVideo Labs LLC (Tysons, Va.).

"Video conference interruption prediction" was invented by Ethan Shayne (Clifton Park, N.Y.) and Donald Gerard Madden (Columbia, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for predictive video conference actions. One of the methods includes accessing, for a video conference in progress in an area of a property, data indicating activity at the property; predicting, using the data indicating activity at the property, that a video conference interruption is likely to occur; a...