US Patent Issued to Zoom Communications on Sept. 22 for "Automatic audio capture device selection" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,689, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Zoom Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Automatic audio capture device selection" was invented by Chi-chian Yu (San Ramon, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A microphone of a primary client device is used to capture audio for a conference participant. During the conference, audio is sampled from the microphone of the primary client device and from microphones of one or more secondary client devices at the same location as the primary client device. Based on a score calculated for the audio sampled from the secondary client device being higher than a score calculated for audio sample...