ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,740, issued on April 22, was assigned to Zoom Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Distributed computing architecture for intent matching" was invented by Connor Isaac Brinton (Holly Springs, N.C.) and Victor The Vong (Dublin, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A server transmits a query received from a user device to multiple deployment engines, each deployment engine being associated with an intent. The server receives, from each of a subset of the multiple deployment engines, a score representing a likelihood that the query matches to the associated intent. The server transmits, to the user device, a message comprising repre...