US Patent Issued to Zoom Communications on March 24 for "Controlling follower device video stream capture for video conferencing" (California, Wisconsin, Illinois, Texas, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,611, issued on March 24, was assigned to Zoom Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Controlling follower device video stream capture for video conferencing" was invented by Jin Fang (Saratoga, Calif.), Ashley Alexandra Hellmann (San Francisco), Robert Aaron Klegon (Chicago), Cynthia Eshiuan Lee (Austin, Texas), Nicholas P. Mueller (Fitchburg, Wis.), Stephen George Newton (San Jose, Calif.) and Shane Paul Springer (Oregon City, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The capture of video streams using follower devices is controlled by a leader device during a video conference. Multiple cameras located at a physical space and connected...