ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,871, issued on July 28, was assigned to Zoom Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Real-time summarization of virtual conference transcripts" was invented by Bilung Lee (San Jose, Calif.), Renjie Tao (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Yun Zhang (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One example method includes receiving, during a virtual conference from a client device, a request to generate a real-time summary of the virtual conference, a plurality of client devices participating in the virtual conference and exchanging audio and video streams; receiving, during the virtual conference, a plurality of utterances generated by automatic ...