ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,445, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Zoom Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Expo floor layout" was invented by Andy Chan (Santa Clara, Calif.), Jeffrey Houng (Redmond, Wash.), Yuk Fai Lam (San Jose, Calif.) and Pankaj Prasad (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system comprising for providing a virtual exposition floor where a first video conference and a second video conference may be established. The first video conference may provide a virtual exposition floor and the second video conference may be associated with a virtual expo booth within the virtual exposition floor. A plurality of participants may access at...