ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,661, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Shure Acquisition Holdings Inc. (Niles, Ill.).

"Systems and methods for integrated conferencing platform" was invented by Leif Josef Moravy (Chicago), Mathew T. Abraham (Colorado Springs, Colo.), Paul Gunia (Chicago), John Casey Gibbs (Chicago) and Lucas Brant Farran (Lake Zurich, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A software-based conferencing platform is provided. The platform comprises a plurality of audio sources providing input audio signals, the audio sources including a virtual audio device driver configured to receive far-end input audio signals from a conferencing software module, and...