ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,529, issued on March 11, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Methods and user interfaces for audio synchronization" was invented by Taylor G. Carrigan (San Francisco), Joseph Labarck (Sparta, N.J.), Christopher John Sanders (San Jose, Calif.), Jarrad A. Stallone (Winter Park, Fla.) and Patrick L Coffman (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure generally relates to audio synchronization. An example method includes, at a first device with a communication device: performing an audio timing synchronization process that includes: transmitting, via the communication device, to a second device, a re...