ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,111, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Zoom Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Application access signal for videoconferences" was invented by Brendan Ittelson (San Jose, Calif.), Robert Mews (San Jose, Calif.) and Yoshifumi Takebuchi (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example methods and systems provide a participant attending a videoconference with a user interface indicator that signals access to personal information. More particularly, the indicator can signal that a companion application being used by attendees of the videoconference is accessing or has accessed videoconference meeting data that includes the...