US Patent Issued to Zoom Communications on Aug. 26 for "Moving pages of a virtual whiteboard to breakout rooms associated with a video conference and combining the pages" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,702, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Zoom Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Moving pages of a virtual whiteboard to breakout rooms associated with a video conference and combining the pages" was invented by Palmer Harold Batt (Seattle) and Ziyue Wang (Hefei, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system may instantiate a virtual whiteboard during a video conference controlled by a host device. The whiteboard may include a first page configured to output first visual content and a second page configured to output second visual content to displays of participant devices connected to the video conference. The system may move t...