ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,740, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Bose Corp. (Framingham, Mass.).
"Latency-based primary bud role swap" was invented by Dylan Maxwell Reilly (Ashland, Mass.) and Michael William Elliot (North Grafton, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Audio drop outs may be reduced by incorporating audio latency variability metrics in handover decision making algorithms. In aspects, predictive audio latency variability metrics, in combination with signal quality measurements, are used to determine when to handover primary earbud responsibilities between earbuds of an earbud system."
The patent was filed on Jan. 10, 2023, under Application...