ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,434, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Zoom Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Providing meeting controls for network conferences" was invented by James David Martin (Lakewood, Colo.) and Brendan James Ittelson (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Meeting controls are provided for network conferences. Providing meeting controls includes maintaining a policy database and receiving a request to participate in a conference. The request includes an identifier. The meeting controls are transmitted to a user device based on the request."

The patent was filed on May 15, 2024, under Application No. 18/664,688.

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