Zoom Hit With Patent Suit Over AI-Powered Virtual Workspaces (1)

Zoom Communications Inc. and Welo Inc., a startup it backs, infringe patents developed by an early pioneer in the field covering AI-powered virtual workspaces, video conferencing tools, and avatar-based collaboration technology, a federal lawsuit said.

Sucoco LLC accused Welo’s AI-enhanced meeting spaces, which integrate with Zoom’s video conferencing platform, of infringing five virtual-office patents, according to a complaint filed Tuesday in the US District Court for the District of Delaware. The patents—US Patent Nos. 7,769,806, 8,775,595, 9,069,851, 8,756,304, and 11,025,679—are set to expire between Sept. 2028 and April 2032, Bloomberg Law estimates.

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