ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,704, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Zoom Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Content-based conference notifications" was invented by Nick Swerdlow (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Identifying users who may be interested in content of a conference while the conference is ongoing includes generating a real-time transcript of a portion of the ongoing conference. The real-time transcript may be generated using a transcription engine accessing audio of an ongoing conference implemented by a conferencing software. Responsive to detecting that a topic-of-interest associated with a user who is not a current partic...