US Patent Issued to Zoom Video Communications on March 18 for "Running conference applications before, during, and after a network conference" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,937, issued on March 18, was assigned to Zoom Video Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Running conference applications before, during, and after a network conference" was invented by Ross Douglas Mayfield (San Jose, Calif.) and Yoshifumi Takebuchi (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System and methods for running conference applications before, during, and after a network conference. In an embodiment, a method is provided for running a conference application before joining a network conference. The method includes activating a client application, selecting a conference application from a plurality of conference ap...