ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,955, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"Asynchronous online meeting metadata flow" was invented by Zhenyu Wang (San Francisco), Tongzhou Zhou (San Francisco), Priyadarshini Mitra (San Francisco), Karthik Vijayan (Austin, Texas), Sreya Basuroy (New York) and Heng Zhang (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Online meeting software typically generates a flow of data. A server system is configured to receive the flow of data, which may include metadata. The data may include metadata of online meetings. Different types of metadata are generated by online meetings. Such different types of metadata ...