ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,008, issued on March 31, was assigned to Zoom Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"User interface tile arrangement based on relative locations" was invented by Anthony Bao Quoc Hoang (San Francisco), Cynthia Eshiuan Lee (Austin, Texas), Jeffrey William Smith (Layton, Utah) and Chi-chian Yu (San Ramon, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "User interface (UI) tiles of conference participants are arranged in a UI of conferencing software according to relative locations of those conference participants within a conference room. Positional information and video data are obtained from one or more video capture devices located within ...