US Patent Issued to Zoom Communications on April 21 for "Dynamic background selection in a chat interface" (California, Washington, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,610,024, issued on April 21, was assigned to Zoom Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Dynamic background selection in a chat interface" was invented by Oded Gal (Palo Alto, Calif.), Andrew Law (Los Gatos, Calif.), Sally Lu (Los Angeles), Ping Luo (Pleasanton, Calif.), Sharvari Nerurkar (Redmond, Wash.), Archil Vardidze (Austin, Texas) and Zheng Yuan (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems provide dynamic background selection in a chat interface. First, the system receives metadata about a chat session comprising a number of participants. The system then determines a virtual background based on one or...