ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,765, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to TOSHIBA TEC K.K. (Tokyo).

"Conference server and conference system" was invented by Shogo Watada (Shizuoka, Japan) and Naoki Sekine (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A conference server includes a processor configured to acquire a response voice signal according to a command voice signal included in a first input voice signal transmitted from a first communication device that participates in an online conference and output a first output voice signal including a command-excluded voice signal obtained by excluding the command voice signal from the first input voice signal; and a ...