US Patent Issued to Zoom Communications on Sept. 22 for "Concurrent speaker highlighting in conferences" (California, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,864, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Zoom Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Concurrent speaker highlighting in conferences" was invented by Ashley Alexandra Hellmann (San Francisco), Jonathan Walkula Kokotajlo (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Robert Allen Ryskamp (Mountain View, Calif.) and Adam Tow (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first audio data stream associated with a first conference participant of a conference is determined to meet predefined criteria. In response to determining that the first audio data stream meets the predefined criteria, a first representation of the first conference participant is added ...