ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,021, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Zoom Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Function control of a remote client" was invented by Karen Kuei Ren Hong (Los Altos, Calif.), Haibing Xu (Milpitas, Calif.) and Dan Yang (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A client is configured to control one or more functions of another client remotely via a wireless connection. Enabling control of the one or more functions of another client includes receiving a control command from a first client. The control command indicates a function to be performed by a second client. The control command is transmitted to the second client when...