ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,829, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Reno, Nev.).

"Audio resampling for media synchronization" was invented by Jordan Gilman (Portland, Ore.), Trevor Wells (Washougal, Wash.) and Max C. Denton (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Approaches provided herein can provide for adjustments to audio data. In particular, an audio resampling process can be performed wherein the correct audio frame size is determined. A "target" audio stream duration, as may be indicated by a time-to-sample atom (STTS) atom, can be used to apply one or more pitch-invariant, time-stretching audio filters to the audio data as...