US Patent Issued to T-Mobile USA on Feb. 18 for "Inferring meeting expense via a meeting expense and verification controller" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,229,730, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to T-Mobile USA Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).

"Inferring meeting expense via a meeting expense and verification controller" was invented by Michael Mitchell (North Bend, Wash.) and Peter Myron (Fall City, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes techniques that enable a Meeting Expense and Verification (MEV) controller to infer the meeting expense of a proposed meeting. The MEV controller may analyze a meeting request to identify meeting attendees, and in doing so, determine the meeting expense. In response to the meeting expense being greater than a predetermined meeting expense t...