ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,403, issued on March 24, was assigned to Zoom Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Creating speaker notes for virtual conferences" was invented by Xiaolong Cai (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Objects in a document are identified via a private user interface of a conferencing software. Notes are associated, in a data store, with at least some of the objects of the document in response to requests to associate the notes to the at least some of the objects. At presentation time, the document is shared in a conference via the conferencing software. At least one of the notes is displayed in the private user interface...