MUMBAI, India, March 15 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202547018616 A) filed by Google Llc, Mountain View, U.S.A., on March 3, for 'coordinated sniffing of air traffic within a group of audio output devices.'

Inventor(s) include Liu, Peter T.

The application for the patent was published on March 14, under issue no. 11/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "Various arrangements for coordinated sniffing of air traffic by sink devices are described herein. The coordinated sniffing can involve one sink device (e.g., a true wireless earbud) sniffing on the air traffic intended for the other earbud without awareness or coordination from the source device. Such sniffing ...