ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,609, issued on April 15, was assigned to Ringcentral Inc. (Belmont, Calif.).
"Matchmaking attendees for virtual, in-person, and hybrid events" was invented by Justin Shaw (Richmond, Va.), Remo Kommnick (Richmond, Va.) and Jagoda Pietrzak (Poznan, Poland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Media, methods, and systems are provided for matchmaking for in-person, virtual, and hybrid events are disclosed. Event attendees may be added to a networking pool When the networking pool reaches a capacity, the event attendees may be added to other event attendees. Networking events may be one-to-one meetings or group meetings. Group meetings may be ded...