ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,711, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Zoom Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Platform-based dynamic selection of participants in a live session" was invented by William Thomas Bernabe (Northborough, Mass.), Benjamin Joseph DeStephen (Hilliard, Ohio) and Michael Richard Williams (Brooklyn Park, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Dynamic selection of participants in video conference where a host of a live session can select a list of participants and a rule for selecting participants therefrom, causing video conferencing services to iteratively apply the rule to the list to select participants for active engagement in the li...