US Patent Issued to Zoom Communications on Sept. 23 for "Multi-step enablement of media input devices during virtual conferences" (Connecticut Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,545, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Zoom Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Multi-step enablement of media input devices during virtual conferences" was invented by Alejandro Martin Paiuk (West Hartford, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for enabling a media input device configured with multi-step enablement are disclosed. A client device joins a video conferencing session and disables a media input device at the client device. A setting of multi-step enablement for the media input device is activated during the video conferencing session. The client device generates a prompt for a subsequent enabli...