US Patent Issued to Zoom Communications on Dec. 23 for "Virtual background based on whiteboard content" (California, Utah Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,845, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Zoom Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Virtual background based on whiteboard content" was invented by Lara Marie Nelson (San Jose, Calif.) and Brandon Kevin Roper (Washington, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A request to set a portion of a virtual background associated with a conference participant based on a virtual whiteboard is received. The request is received by a conferencing software from a device of the conference participant. An edit to the virtual whiteboard is received. An image associated with the conference participant that includes a representation of the conference pa...