ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,704, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Zoom Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Compliance auditing for encrypted video conferences" was invented by Karan Lyons (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One example method includes receiving, by a compliance auditing server, an indication of an encrypted video conference; sending, by the compliance auditing server, a request to a video conference provider to join a compliance auditing participant to the encrypted video conference, wherein the video conference provider does not have access to the compliance auditing server; receiving and storing, by the compliance auditing server...