US Patent Issued to Zoom Communications on Feb. 3 for "Sharing and collaborating on content objects during a video conference" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,819, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Zoom Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Sharing and collaborating on content objects during a video conference" was invented by Arun Janakiraman (San Francisco), Yeki Giles (Santa Clara, Calif.), Ross Douglas Mayfield (Palo Also, Calif.) and Shishir Sharma (Ottawa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One example method includes joining, using a video conferencing application, a video conference hosted by a video conference provider, the video conference having one or more participants; executing, within an execution environment provided by the video conferencing application, a software applicatio...