US Patent Issued to Zoom Communications on Oct. 21 for "Previewing conference items prior to joining a conference" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,323, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Zoom Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Previewing conference items prior to joining a conference" was invented by Nick Swerdlow (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A conference system transmits a first graphical output to display an indicator of a conference item on a display of a client device. Prior to the client device joining the conference, the conference system receives a request to view the conference item. The conference system transmits a second graphical output to the client device to display the conference item."

The patent was filed on Sept. 10, 2021, under A...