US Patent Issued to Zoom Communications on Jan. 27 for "Chat channel highlights" (Colorado, California, North Carolina, Washington, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,706, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Zoom Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Chat channel highlights" was invented by Jason Clark (Evergreen, Colo.), Benjamin Gareth Dove (Issaquch, Wash.), Amanda Naomi Etheridge (Georgetown, Texas), Li-An Huang (San Francisco), Robert Allen Ryskamp (Mountain View, Calif.), Adam Justin Spooner (Greensboro, N.C.) and Matthew Brandon Wesson (Lafayette, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for providing spotlight cards within a chat channel are provided. In an aspect, a method includes establishing, by a video conference provider, a first chat channel for exchanging chat mes...