ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,709, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Zoom Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Conference gallery view" was invented by Cynthia Eshiuan Lee (Austin, Texas), Jeffrey William Smith (Layton, Utah) and Chi-chian Yu (San Ramon, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A conference gallery view intelligence system determines at least two regions of interest within a conference room based on an input video stream received from a video capture device located within the conference room. An output video stream for rendering within conferencing software is produced for each of the at least two regions of interest. The output video stream fo...