ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,929, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Zoom Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Region of interest-based frame rate adjustment" was invented by Chi-chian Yu (San Ramon, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Frame rates for rendering video streams depicting conference participants within a physical space are adjusted based on motion detected with respect to those conference participants. Regions of interest are identified within an initial video stream captured by a video capture device. The video capture device is caused to capture, at an initial frame rate, video streams each associated with a different one of the regions of int...