ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,620, issued on May 6, was assigned to Zoom Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Communication session transfer using visual code" was invented by Alejandro Paiuk (West Hartford, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A conference system enables a communication session between two or more participants. During the communication session, a participant device displays a visual code that is scanned by the device in which the identity is unknown. Based on the scan of the visual code, the conference system transfers the communication session such that it is continued between the device in which the identity is unknown and the one or more ...