ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,638, issued on May 13, was assigned to Zoom Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Identifying relevant content for video conferences" was invented by Ronald Hutto (Willis, Texas) and Gavin Paxton (Magnolia, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for identifying content in video conferences and virtual meetings are disclosed. In an example, a method involves establishing a virtual meeting and client devices to the virtual meeting. Each client device is associated with a corresponding participant. The method further involves accessing a data store having available multimedia content items. The method further involves select...