ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,795, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Bose Corp. (Framingham, Mass.).

"Methods and systems for managing simultaneous data streams from multiple sources" was invented by Douglas Warren Young (Arlington, Mass.), Rasmus Abildgren (Skorping, Denmark) and Casper Stork Bonde (Stovring, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for managing simultaneous data streams from multiple sources is provided. At least one paired audio device within the system, is a managing device and coordinates the audio playback presented in each paired audio device. In this way, each device can produce an audio playback associated with differe...