ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,621, issued on June 24, was assigned to Zoom Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Audio capture device selection for in-person conference participants" was invented by Chi-chian Yu (San Ramon, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A conference room device located in a conference room uses a conference room microphone to capture audio for one or more in-person conference participants located in the conference room during a conference. During the conference, audio is sampled from the microphone used by the conference room device and from microphones of one or more user devices determined to be located in the conference room. Based ...