US Patent Issued to Zoom Communications on July 1 for "Ad hoc client audio device support for virtual conferences" (American, Chinese, Singaporean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,899, issued on July 1, was assigned to Zoom Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Ad hoc client audio device support for virtual conferences" was invented by Qiang Gao (Charlotte, N.C.), Zhaofeng Jia (Saratoga, Calif.), Qiyong Liu (Singapore), Xinyu Yao (Hefei, China), Shaoming Ye (Hefei, China) and Xiangming Zhu (Hefei, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One example method for ad hoc client audio device support for virtual conferences includes transmitting, via a first communication channel by a virtual conference device connected to a virtual conference hosted by a virtual conference provider, a first signal, the first signal i...