ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,322, issued on June 17, was assigned to Zoom Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Capturing and presenting audience response at scale" was invented by Brendan James Ittelson (San Jose, Calif.) and Pankaj Prasad (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One example method includes receiving, by the video conference provider, a plurality of responses during a time period, the plurality of responses each provided by one of a plurality of participants in a video conference, the video conference associated with a host and hosted by a video conference provider, and each of the plurality of responses associated with a timestamp and ...