ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,943, issued on July 7, was assigned to Zoom Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Enhanced caller identification" was invented by Kameswar Rao Ati (Fairview, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A conferencing software receives a request from a device of a caller to connect to a conference. The conferencing software determines that name information of the caller is not included in the request. In response to determining that the name information is not included in the request, the conferencing software transmits an identification request to the device, where the identification request is a text-based message that is configured to o...