ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,116, issued on July 8, was assigned to Zoom Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Multiple host management of videoconferencing sub-meetings" was invented by Lin Han (Los Altos, Calif.) and Nitasha Walia (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One example system for multiple host management of videoconferencing sub-meetings includes a processor and at least one memory device. The processor establishes a main videoconferencing meeting and establishes a host of the main videoconferencing meeting. The host participates using a first host client device. The processor can receive a selection of a participant to be a co-host. T...