ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,337, issued on July 15, was assigned to Zoom Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Multi-factor available workspace reservation recommendation" was invented by Wing Hong Michael Lam (Sammamish, Wash.), Cynthia Eshiuan Lee (Austin, Texas), Carleigh Pereira Noble (Chicago) and Jeffrey William Smith (Milpitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A recommended workspace at a premises is determined for a user of a software platform requesting a workspace reservation based on learned preferences specific to the user. The workspace reservation request is initiated via an interaction by the user with one or more graphical user interface...