US Patent Issued to Zoom Communications on May 12 for "Video intercom communication for VOIP device" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,769, issued on May 12, was assigned to Zoom Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Video intercom communication for VOIP device" was invented by Karen Kuei Ren Hong (Los Altos, Calif.), Kwan Seng Low (San Jose, Calif.), Hui Sun (Hefei, China) and Chunsong Zhu (Hefei, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first invite message is received from an intercom device to establish an audio call with a voice over internet protocol (VOIP) device. A second invite message is transmitted to the VOIP device in response to receiving the first invite message. The second invite message indicates the first invite message from the intercom device to ...