US Patent Issued to Zoom Communications on Dec. 30 for "Facilitating a remote emergency call during a video conference" (California, Colorado, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,241, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Zoom Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Facilitating a remote emergency call during a video conference" was invented by Walter F. C. Anderson (Santa Cruz, Calif.), Aaron Coffman (Denver) and Benjamin Joseph DeStephen (Hilliard, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An emergency call is initiated on behalf of a remote user by another software user who determines that the remote software user is experiencing an emergency event. During a real-time communication, a remote emergency alert is received from a first client device associated with a first user. The remote emergency alert identifies a...