ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,430, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Zoom Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Dynamic configuration of interface elements for eye contact in a communication session" was invented by Jeffrey Allen Eagan (Longmont, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems provide dynamic configuration of interface elements for eye contact in a communication session. In one embodiment, a method presents, at one or more displays of a client device connected to a communication session, a user interface ("UI") for the communication session, the UI including one or more video feeds associated with participants of the communication ...