ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,708, issued on March 25, was assigned to Zoom Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Video conference automatic spotlighting" was invented by Samuel Lum (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Automatic spotlighting of participant video feeds in a video conference are based on one or more triggers detected in the participant video feeds. Participant video feeds are added to a spotlight video queue. The participant video feeds are elevated to an active spotlight status based on certain criteria. The participant video feeds that are elevated to the active spotlight status are displayed adjacent to a host video feed on a di...