US Patent Issued to Zoom Communications on Oct. 21 for "Setting virtual backgrounds from virtual background sources" (Oregon Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,386, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Zoom Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Setting virtual backgrounds from virtual background sources" was invented by Shane Paul Springer (Oregon City, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An indication of a virtual background (VBG) source is received. A VBG rule is stored in association with the indication of the VBG source. A background setting request that identifies the VBG rule is received from a conference participant of a video conference. A request for a VBG datum is transmitted to the VBG source. A VBG is set for the conference participant using the VBG datum."

The patent was file...