US Patent Issued to Zoom Communications on Sept. 29 for "Conference summarization based on action items" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,750,464, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Zoom Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Conference summarization based on action items" was invented by Tao Huang (Hangzhou City, China), Xiaoli Song (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Hui Wen (Hangzhou City, China), Melinda Min Xiao-Devins (San Jose, Calif.), Ran Yan (Hangzhou City, China) and Fangyi Zhao (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transcript of a conference (e.g., a video conference, an audio conference, or a telephone call with two or more participants) is processed to extract a conference summary. The transcript includes strings that are associated with respective timestamp...