ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,326, issued on July 1, was assigned to Zoom Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Applications within persistent hybrid collaborative workspaces" was invented by Ross Douglas Mayfield (Palo Alto, Calif.), Robert Allen Ryskamp (Mountain View, Calif.) and Jeffrey William Smith (Layton, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for providing using software applications within persistent hybrid virtual collaborative workspaces are provided. In an example, a method establishes a virtual collaborative workspace characterized by or more virtual collaborative workspace resources and associated with one or more users to interact with o...