ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,618, issued on May 27, was assigned to Zoom Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Securely recording and retrieving encrypted video conferences" was invented by Max Krohn (New York City, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One disclosed example method includes obtaining a meeting cryptographic key; transmitting, from a client device to a video conference provider, a request to initiate an encrypted video conference, the encrypted video conference including a plurality of participants; distributing the meeting cryptographic key to each participant of the plurality of participants; obtaining a public cryptographic key of a key pair,...