ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,850, issued on July 7, was assigned to Zoom Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Secure access to online events" was invented by Wei Li (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for transmitting content during a networked conference. In an embodiment, a method is provided for secure access to online events. The method includes receiving a request from a user to access an online event, obtaining a user email address, an event identifier and an event passcode, and hashing the user email address, the event identifier and the event passcode to generate a ticket hash value. The method also includes forming a...