ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,776, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to DATAVAULT AI INC. (Beaverton, Ore.).

"Systems and methods for audio device interoperability" was invented by Kenneth A. Boehlke (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods of the present disclosure enable heterogenous device interoperability for signaling across a network by configuring each transmitter and receiver to implement an interoperability tranche protocol. According to the interoperability tranche protocol, a transmitter generates multiple audio streams based on an original audio signal and a tranche function, where the tranche function is configured to produce ...