US Patent Issued to Zoom Video Communications on March 25 for "Enabling two-way communication with video conference waiting rooms" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,709, issued on March 25, was assigned to Zoom Video Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Enabling two-way communication with video conference waiting rooms" was invented by Lin Han (Los Altos, Calif.) and Nitasha Walia (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One example method includes receiving, from a first client device, a request to join a video conference, the video conference having a main meeting, creating, in response to the request, a sub-meeting associated with the main meeting, connecting the first client device to the sub-meeting, connecting a host client device to the sub-meeting simultaneously with the ho...