ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,317, issued on July 29, was assigned to Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Integrating meeting data between an IM application and a conferencing application" was invented by Tieming Huang (Shenzhen, China), Xiaoqin Wang (Shenzhen, China), Qiang Huang (Shenzhen, China), Bin Li (Shenzhen, China), Lei Li (Shenzhen, China) and Chuwei Zeng (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A conference data processing method includes acquiring a first meeting list of meetings created by a user, meetings in the first meeting list having been created by the user through an instant messaging (IM) client. The IM client in...