ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,166, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Zoom Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Connection recommendation and collaboration" was invented by Lin Han (Los Altos, Calif.), Hang Kin Lau (Belmont, Calif.), Yike Liu (Santa Clara, Calif.), Andy Lopez (Santa Ana, Calif.), Ying Lu (Cerritos, Calif.), Marian Rydzanych (Greenbrae, Calif.) and Hao Zhang (Hefei, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example methods and systems for connection recommendation are provided. A communication platform provides a user hub application comprising one or more application modules corresponding to one or more user applications. The communication platfor...