ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,690, issued on May 27, was assigned to Unify Beteiligungsverwaltung GmbH & Co. KG (Munich).

"Method and system for mutual consensus of meeting participants in established real-time sessions" was invented by Manfred Kehr (Munich) and Thomas Lederer (Herrsching, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and a system for mutual consensus of meeting participants in established real-time sessions configured for allowing mutual consensus. In some embodiments, the a virtual meeting can be established between multiple parties (e.g. at least two participants) in which nobody can leave the meeting, or session, until an agreement is reach...