ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,140, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Zoom Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Synchronizing loosely coupled systems at a third-party system" was invented by Rajaram Mohandas Bhakta (San Jose, Calif.), Sivakumar Damodaran Pooruli (Fremont, Calif.) and Swetha Tumkur Prakash (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Synchronizing loosely coupled systems where a third-party system receives from a source system a source evaluation of a validation function based on a data record sent to a target system, and the third party receives from the target system a target evaluation of the validation function based on the data record...