ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,667, issued on July 21, was assigned to Zoom Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Content monitoring for virtual meeting rooms" was invented by Lin Han (Los Altos, Calif.), Nitasha Walia (Cupertino, Calif.) and Tain Barzso (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One example system for providing virtual meeting room content monitoring for a host of a videoconference includes a processor and at least one memory device. The memory device includes instructions that can cause the processor to establish a videoconferencing session having a first virtual meeting room. The processor receives a control input from a host subscribed...