ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,605, issued on July 1, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Method and system for time-aligned media playback" was invented by Stephen E. Pinto (Mountain View, Calif.) and Yasser Rihan (Redwood City, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method performed by a first electronic device. The method generates, at the first electronic device that is sharing a global clock with a second electronic device, a first timebase information that includes a first timebase that defines a relationship between the shared clock and an internal clock of the first electronic device, the first timebase information for synchronizing playback o...