ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,652, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to RINGCENTRAL INC. (Belmont, Calif.).

"Method for controlling a real-time conversation and real-time communication and collaboration platform" was invented by Karl Klaghofer (Munich), Wolfgang Schiffer (Herzogenrath, Germany) and Michael Rodenbucher (Eschweiler, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a method for controlling a real-time communication between at least two participants on a real-time conversation and collaboration platform by means of a digital assistant unit, wherein clients are connected to a conferencing application via a communications network ...