US Patent Issued to Zoom Communications on Dec. 30 for "Allocating a physical space to a participant for use in connection with a virtual breakout room" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,018, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Zoom Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Allocating a physical space to a participant for use in connection with a virtual breakout room" was invented by Cary Arnold Bran (Vashon, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer assigns a participant of a video conference to a virtual breakout room associated with the video conference. The computer determines an availability of a physical space for the virtual breakout room. The computer allocates the physical space for use in connection with the virtual breakout room. The computer captures an image of the participant from a video stream as...