ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,645,422, issued on June 2, was assigned to Zoom Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Adaptive audio processing during video conferencing" was invented by Yuhui Chen (San Jose, Calif.), Qiang Gao (Charlotte, N.C.), Zhaofeng Jia (Saratoga, Calif.) and Shiwei Wang (Hefei, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for adaptive audio processing during video conferencing are provided. In an example method, a client device joins a video conference hosted by a video conference provider, the video conference including a plurality of client devices. The client device receives, from an audio input device, an audio stream. The client device...