ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,218,773, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Zoom Video Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Video conference acceleration" was invented by Patrick Jensen (Fresno, Calif.) and Michael White (Alpine, Utah).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One example method for video conference acceleration includes connecting, by an accelerator device, to a local area network ("LAN"), the LAN in communication with a wide area network ("WAN"); transmitting, via the LAN and the WAN, registration information to a video conference provider, the registration information identifying network configuration information; receiving, from the video conference provider...