ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,689, issued on July 22, was assigned to RingCentral Inc. (Belmont, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for providing aggregate group presence state identifier" was invented by Christopher van Rensburg (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for presenting a group presence state based on determined participants of the group, obtained presence states of each participants and generated the group presence state using the presence states of each participant."

The patent was filed on Sept. 30, 2021, under Application No. 17/490,701.

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