ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,020, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Zoom Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Virtual conferencing based on geofences" was invented by Alejandro Martin Paiuk (West Hartford, Conn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example methods and systems are provided for virtual conferencing based on geofences. A virtual conference device hosts an event session for an event at a location. The virtual conference device is installed with a virtual conference application. The virtual conference device joins an event session for an event and accesses geofence data associated with a geofence for an area at the location of the event. The geofence ...