ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,001, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Zoom Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Event path generation" was invented by Shane Paul Springer (Oregon City, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example methods and systems automatically generate event paths for participants of an event. A virtual conference provider accesses a scheduled event including multiple sessions and multiple participants. The virtual conference provider extracts participant data and event data associated with the scheduled event and generates a recommendation of one or more sessions for a participant based at least in part on the participant data and the even...