ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,412, issued on March 3, was assigned to Zoom Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Connection strength-based name detection and attribution in conferences" was invented by Aleksandra Swerdlow (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A conference system detects a name of a person in a discussion between two or more participants in a conference. The name is detected in an audio component of the conference. The conference system determines a list of person candidates associated with the name based on scores determined for individual persons in a contact list relative to the name. The conference system determines a connecti...