ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,762, issued on July 22, was assigned to Zoom Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Network conference meeting controls" was invented by James David Martin (Lakewood, Colo.) and Brendan James Ittelson (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus for receiving user meeting control for network conferences. In an embodiment, a method for receiving user meeting controls includes transmitting a request to participate in a network conference. The request includes an identifier. The method also includes receiving meeting controls for use during the network conference. The meeting controls are determined from a po...