ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,574, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to United Services Automobile Association (USAA) (San Antonio).

"Focal awareness system for online collaboration" was invented by Stacy Callaway Huggar (San Antonio), Snehal Desai (Richardson, Texas), Kristina Suniga-Cabrera (San Antonio), Noe Alberto Martinez (San Antonio) and Katrina Marie Zell (San Antonio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is related to a focal awareness system that includes processors and memory storing instructions. The instructions may cause the processors to generate a graphical user interface (GUI) configured to present an online meeting window on a d...