ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,791, issued on June 30, was assigned to Zoom Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Chat channel management for a virtual conference service" was invented by Lin Han (Los Altos, Calif.), Wenlong Li (Suzhou, China), Jingwei Li (Suzhou, China), Yike Liu (Santa Clara, Calif.), Ying Lu (Cerritos, Calif.), Ang Qiao (Suzhou, China), Yitao Wang (Suzhou, China), Shuang Wang (Suzhou, China) and Fengtian Zhang (Suzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques may include accessing a message in a database of the virtual conference service. In addition, the techniques may include identifying one or more features of the message. The tech...