US Patent Issued to Zoom Communications on July 21 for "Audio focus in an ambient meeting" (North Carolina, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,005, issued on July 21, was assigned to Zoom Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Audio focus in an ambient meeting" was invented by Robert Allen Ryskamp (Mountainview, Calif.) and Adam Justin Spooner (Greensboro, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One example method includes joining, from a client device, a virtual meeting hosted by a virtual meeting provider, the virtual meeting comprising a plurality of display areas, each of the display areas associated with a one or more participants in the virtual meeting, displaying the virtual meeting on the display of the client device, receiving an eye tracking signal from an eye track...