ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,175, issued on April 29, was assigned to Zoom Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Compositing high-definition conference recordings" was invented by Graeme Lambourne Geddes (Aliso Viejo, Calif.) and Shawn Michael Rolin (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Respective devices of conference participants are connected to a conference hosted by a conferencing server. Respective commands are transmitted to the respective devices to initiate distributed recording. Subsequent to a termination of the conference, respective high-resolution media files are received from the respective devices. At least a subset of the respective...