US Patent Issued to Zoom Communications on July 7 for "Graphical user interface for displaying key participants in a conference" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,941, issued on July 7, was assigned to Zoom Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Graphical user interface for displaying key participants in a conference" was invented by Miao Jin (Hangzhou, China), Chunhan Li (Hangzhou, China), Gang Ren (Hangzhou, China), Pan Zhang (Hangzhou, China) and Yamin Zhou (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A conferencing system identifies key participants in a video conference and generates a graphical user interface (GUI) with enlarged participant tiles for displaying video streams of the identified key participants. The conferencing system outputs the GUI to client devices connected to the...