US Patent Issued to Zoom Communications on Aug. 25 for "Providing assistance to impaired users within a conferencing system" (Texas, Louisiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,002, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Zoom Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Providing assistance to impaired users within a conferencing system" was invented by Ronald Hutto (Willis, Texas) and Thanh Le Nguyen (Belle Chasse, La.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for providing assistance to visually impaired and/or hearing-impaired users accessing a video conference. The systems and methods include initiating a virtual meeting hosting a plurality of participants, detecting a presence of at least one impaired participant from the plurality of participants, loading one or more...