US Patent Issued to Zoom Communications on April 22 for "Virtually sharing content as annotations onto a physical surface over multiple sessions" (Oregon, Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,228, issued on April 22, was assigned to Zoom Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Virtually sharing content as annotations onto a physical surface over multiple sessions" was invented by Thomas William Noble (Murfreesboro, Tenn.) and Shane Paul Springer (Oregon City, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present teachings provide a method and device of virtually sharing physical contents across multiple sessions. The teachings provide retrieving, from a data store, virtual whiteboard content derived from a first whiteboard session. The virtual whiteboard content includes first physical data from a physical surface, first virtua...