US Patent Issued to Zoom Communications on Sept. 22 for "Dynamic layouts of video conferencing participants" (California, Utah, Colorado, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,860, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Zoom Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Dynamic layouts of video conferencing participants" was invented by Ashley Alexandra Hellmann (San Francisco), Cynthia Eshiuan Lee (Austin, Texas), Robert Allen Ryskamp (Mountain View, Calif.), Jeffrey William Smith (Layton, Utah), Tingyu Xie (Austin, Texas) and Matthew Brandon Wesson (Lafayette, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for providing dynamic layouts for video conferencing participants are disclosed. In a computer-implemented method, a video conference provider may determine a first layout of a plurality of particip...