US Patent Issued to Zoom Communications on Sept. 9 for "Selected follow-along participants for viewport synchronization" (Utah, Washington, California, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,686, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Zoom Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Selected follow-along participants for viewport synchronization" was invented by Palmer Harold Batt (Seattle), Alicia Anne-Kepner Brekke (Richmond, Va.), Stephen George Newton (San Jose, Calif.) and Jeffrey William Smith (Layton, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A request is received. The request identifies a first conference participant of a conference as a follow-along participant for a second conference participant of the conference for which a whiteboard is enabled. A trigger associated with the first conference participant is identified. Re...