US Patent Issued to Zoom Communications on July 8 for "Transferring a phone call into a video conferencing session" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,830, issued on July 8, was assigned to Zoom Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Transferring a phone call into a video conferencing session" was invented by Defeng Lu (San Jose, Calif.), Bin Hu (Los Gatos, Calif.), Ji Park (San Jose, Calif.) and Vi Dinh Chau (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and/or method discloses an automatic call-to-conference elevation ("ACE") capable of facilitating a transition from a phone call to a video conference. An ACE process, in one embodiment, is able to activate an ACE application to elevate user devices from participating in an audio call to a video conference based on a confer...