ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,837, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"Scheduled synchronous multimedia collaboration sessions" was invented by Vineeth John Abraham (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Media, methods, and systems are provided for scheduling a scheduled event within a synchronous multimedia collaboration session within a group-based communication system. A selected start time and a selected time duration may be received such that one or more users are added to the synchronous multimedia collaboration session within a channel of the group-based communication system at or near the selected start time. Upo...