ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,395,609, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Zoom Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"License-based video conference session facilitation" was invented by Brendan James Ittelson (San Jose, Calif.) and Shane Paul Springer (Oregon City, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video conference session is enabled using a video conference software license issued to an internal device user within the organization. Using the same license or different video conference software licenses, portions of the video conference session between an external device user external to the organization and various internal device users within the organization...