ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,023, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Zoom Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Annotating a conference video stream with participant names using speech recognition" was invented by Zhenghang Gu (San Jose, Calif.), Zhaofeng Jia (Saratoga, Calif.), Robert Aaron Klegon (Chicago), Tiffany Hui Lai (Seattle), Cynthia Eshiuan Lee (Austin, Texas), Bo Ling (Saratoga, Calif.), Ka Ki Ng (San Mateo, Calif.), Jing-An Tzeng (San Jose, Calif.), Zhenyi Ye (Aliso Viejo, Calif.) and Huixi Zhao (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A conference video stream is annotated with participant names determined using speech recognition. A compu...