US Patent Issued to Zoom Communications on March 17 for "Whiteboard viewport synchronization based on triggers associated with conference participants" (Utah, Washington, California, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,036, issued on March 17, was assigned to Zoom Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Whiteboard viewport synchronization based on triggers associated with conference participants" was invented by Palmer Harold Batt (Seattle), Alicia Anne-Kepner Brekke (Richmond, Va.), Stephen George Newton (San Jose, Calif.) and Jeffrey William Smith (Layton, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first conference participant of a conference that includes a whiteboard is identified. A first viewport into the whiteboard is identified. The first viewport is displayed at a device of the first conference participant. A second viewport is set based on t...