US Patent Issued to Zoom Communications on Aug. 12 for "Connecting a phone device to a virtual meeting using multi-factor authentication" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,881, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Zoom Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Connecting a phone device to a virtual meeting using multi-factor authentication" was invented by Brendan James Ittelson (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Multi-factor authentication techniques are used to verify an identity of an audio-only caller requesting to join a video-enabled virtual meeting. A request for an audio-only caller to join a video-enabled virtual meeting is received from a phone device of the audio-only caller, in which the audio-only caller is using the phone device to call into the video-enabled virtual meeting. A...