US Patent Issued to Zoom Communications on March 24 for "Providing off-the-record functionality during virtual meetings" (Michigan, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,614, issued on March 24, was assigned to Zoom Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Providing off-the-record functionality during virtual meetings" was invented by Shane P. Springer (Manchester, Mich.) and Alexander Waibel (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for providing off-the-record functionality is provided herein. The system may include a processor configured to execute processor-executable instructions stored in non-transitory computer-readable medium to establish a video conference having a plurality of participants, each participant of the plurality of participants exchanging a plurality of audio or video st...