US Patent Issued to Zoom Communications on Oct. 21 for "Integrating chat channels with document editing" (California, North Carolina, Washington, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,322, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Zoom Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Integrating chat channels with document editing" was invented by Youjin Jang (San Ramon, Calif.), Sheldon Lawrence Menezes (Seattle), Robert Allen Ryskamp (Mountain View, Calif.), Adam Justin Spooner (Greensboro, N.C.) and Matthew Brandon Wesson (Lafayette, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One example method includes establishing a chat channel; creating a shared document; associating the shared document and the chat channel; establishing access rights to the shared document and the chat channel for each user of a plurality of identified users; ...