US Patent Issued to Zoom Communications on Nov. 18 for "Using a light communications system to cause an update associated with a virtual meeting" (Oregon Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,706, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Zoom Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Using a light communications system to cause an update associated with a virtual meeting" was invented by Shane Paul Springer (Oregon City, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user device may use a light communications system to detect, from a light source in a physical space, light in a pattern that represents encoded information. The light communications system may include a sensor and an emitter. The user device may decode the encoded information based on the pattern to cause an update associated with a virtual meeting. In some implementations,...