ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,199, issued on June 10, was assigned to Zoom Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Participant audio stream modification" was invented by Nick Swerdlow (Santa Clara, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The audio stream of a participant to a conference is modified within the conference to change a perceptible output of a characteristic of speech represented by the audio stream. An audio stream is obtained from a participant device connected to a conference. The audio stream represents speech of a user of the participant device. A user request to modify a first characteristic of the speech is initiated within the conference. The f...