US Patent Issued to Zoom Communications on Sept. 2 for "Audio-only caller authentication for elevating a telephone call to a virtual meeting" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,407,782, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Zoom Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Audio-only caller authentication for elevating a telephone call to a virtual meeting" was invented by Brendan James Ittelson (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A telephone call is elevated to a virtual meeting while maintaining the telephone call as an audio channel of the virtual meeting for an audio-only caller. During a telephone call, one of the participants of the telephone call requests to switch the telephone call to a virtual meeting. To enable an audio-only caller participating in the telephone call to switch to the virtual me...