ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,659, issued on June 17, was assigned to Zoom Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Hiding private user data in public signature chains for user authentication in video conferences" was invented by Karan Lyons (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One example method includes receiving identification information associated with a new user device, the new user device associated with the user; accessing a signature chain associated with the user, the signature chain comprising one or more sequential records; associating user personal information with the new user device; generating a cryptographic signature based on cryptographi...