ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,953, issued on June 30, was assigned to Zoom Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Music collaboration using virtual conferencing" was invented by Zhaofeng Jia (Saratoga, Calif.), Qiyong Liu (Singapore), Mengfan Zhang (Mountain View, Calif.) and Xiangming Zhu (Anhui, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One example method for music collaboration using virtual conferencing includes receiving, by a client device, audio streams associated with a plurality of musicians in a virtual conference, each musician assigned to a virtual position within a virtual space established by the virtual conference, the client device associated with a ...