US Patent Issued to Zoom Communications on April 21 for "Command determination for virtual meetings using gaze and hand gestures" (Colorado, Louisiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,845, issued on April 21, was assigned to Zoom Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Command determination for virtual meetings using gaze and hand gestures" was invented by Richard Dean Legatski (Castle Rock, Colo.) and Thanh Le Nguyen (Belle Chasse, La.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for command determination for virtual meetings using gaze and hand gestures are disclosed. In an example method, a client device initiates a virtual meeting to which a number of client devices are connected. The virtual meeting is configured with a designation of a user of the client device as either a hearing-impaired user or a sign lang...