US Patent Issued to Zoom Communications on March 18 for "Communicating with participants in breakout rooms" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,938, issued on March 18, was assigned to Zoom Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Communicating with participants in breakout rooms" was invented by Nick Swerdlow (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A meeting host or moderator can control communications among participants in virtual breakout rooms without requiring the host to join a breakout room as a participant. The host can run conferencing software to instantiate a meeting room and breakout rooms associated with the meeting room. The host can control communications in the breakout rooms, such as by transmitting and/or receiving content through one or more c...