ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,684, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Bose Corp. (Framingham, Mass.).

"Synchronizing bluetooth data capture to data playback" was invented by Somasundaram Meiyappan (Chennai, India), Nathan Blagrove (Hanover, Mass.) and Francois Laberge (Framingham, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Processes, methods, systems, and devices are disclosed for synchronizing wirelessly transmitted captured audios to audio output. In an aspect, a user device transmits an audio output associated with the audio playback to a wireless audio device. The user device receives a feedback signal corresponding to the audio output played at the wireless audi...