US Patent Issued to Zoom Communications on June 17 for "Audio focus in a virtual meeting based on eye tracking" (North Carolina, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,060, issued on June 17, was assigned to Zoom Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Audio focus in a virtual meeting based on eye tracking" was invented by Robert Allen Ryskamp (Mountain View, Calif.) and Adam Justin Spooner (Greensboro, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One example method includes joining, from a client device, a virtual meeting hosted by a virtual meeting provider, the virtual meeting comprising a plurality of participants, displaying the virtual meeting on the display of the client device, receiving an eye tracking signal from an eye tracking sensor, the eye tracking signal associated with a first user of the ...