ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,462, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"Surfacing relevant topics in a group-based communication system" was invented by Oleksii Kalinichenko (Burnaby, Canada), Akshay Bakshi (Vancouver, Canada) and Leena Mansour (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system, method, and computer-readable media for surfacing relevant topics discussed in a synchronous multimedia collaboration session to interested nonparticipants of the synchronous multimedia collaboration session. A relevant topic of the synchronous multimedia collaboration session may be determined based in part on audio data from the synchrono...