ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,742, issued on July 8, was assigned to Zoom Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"History-based inauthenticity identification" was invented by Alexander Waibel (Sammamish, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A request from a first device of a first communication session participant to connect to a second device of a second communication session participant is received at communications software. The communications software connects the first device to the second device, communications software determines a level of authenticity for the first communication session participant based on a communications history of at least one of the...