ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,581, issued on July 8, was assigned to Zoom Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Breakout chat channels" was invented by Sachin Srivastava (San Ramon, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example methods and systems for creating breakout chat channels are provided. A chat and video conference provider receives from a client device associated with a first member of a plurality of members of a chat channel a request to create a subchannel related to a topic. The chat and video conference provider enables the client device to transmit an invitation message for joining the subchannel to a subset of the plurality of members. The chat ...