US Patent Issued to Zoom Communications on Oct. 7 for "Limiting perception levels of media exchanges within multi-user virtual sub-spaces" (California, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,929, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Zoom Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Limiting perception levels of media exchanges within multi-user virtual sub-spaces" was invented by Robert Allen Ryskamp (Mountain View, Calif.), Adam Justin Spooner (Greensboro, N.C.) and Aleksandra Swerdlow (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A connection of users to a multi-user virtual space is detected. A multi-user virtual sub-space within the multi-user virtual space is formed. A group of users from among the users are assigned to the multi-user virtual sub-space. Media exchanges are focused for the group of users within the mul...