ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,930, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Zoom Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Filtering sensitive topic speech within a conference audio stream" was invented by Nick Swerdlow (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A portion of an audio stream representing speech of a conference participant is filtered based on a determination that the portion of the audio stream corresponds to a predefined sensitive topic. An audio stream representing speech of a user of a participant device connected to a conference is obtained. First hash values are determined for portions of the speech. A determination is made, by comparing th...