ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,389, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Zoom Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Intelligent muting and unmuting of an audio feed within a communication session" was invented by Thanh Le Nguyen (Belle Chasse, La.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An input audio signal is received from a client device. A connection to a communication session with a plurality of participants is maintained for the client device. An audio feed corresponding to the input audio signal is transmitted to a plurality of other participant devices. While the communication session is in progress and the connection to the communication session is maintained by ...