ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,574, issued on July 1, was assigned to Zoom Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Chat overlay in video conferences" was invented by Sam Kokajko (Round Rock, Texas) and Jonathan Kokotajlo (Brooklyn, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for overlaying messages are disclosed. In an example, a method involves receiving, from a first client participating as a first virtual participant in a first virtual meeting hosted by a virtual conference provider, a first message from a first messaging channel of the first virtual meeting. The method further involves receiving, from a second client participating as a second virtual partic...