ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,212,890, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to RingCentral Inc. (Belmont, Calif.).

"Methods and systems for pre-recorded participation in a conference" was invented by Christopher van Rensburg (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides methods and systems for creating recordings for virtual conferences. According to one of the embodiments a computer-implemented method is provided. The method comprises: requesting that an invitee of a virtual conference, through a conferencing platform, create a pre-recording to be played during the virtual conference; receiving the pre-recording, through the conferencing ...