US Patent Issued to Zoom Communications on Feb. 10 for "Handling joining and leaving of participants in videoconferencing with end-to-end encryption" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,354, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Zoom Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Handling joining and leaving of participants in videoconferencing with end-to-end encryption" was invented by Simon Booth (Livermore, Calif.) and Karan Lyons (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One disclosed example method includes a leader client device associated with a leader participant generating a meeting key for a video meeting joined by multiple participants. For each participant, the leader client device obtains a long-term public key and a cryptographic signature associated with the participant. The leader client device verifies th...