ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,610, issued on July 29, was assigned to Zoom Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Accentuating communications in a video conference" was invented by Aleksandra Swerdlow (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Nick Swerdlow (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Communications between participants of a video conference are accentuated based on a participant's focus. A first participant of a video conference is determined to be focused on a user interface element associated with a second participant of the video conference. Responsive to the determining that the first participant is focused on the user interface element associated w...