ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,477, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Disney Enterprises Inc. (Burbank, Calif.).

"Video and audio synchronization with dynamic frame and sample rates" was invented by Clara Fernandez Labrador (Zurich), Cafer Mertcan Akcay (Zurich), Christopher Richard Schroers (Uster, Switzerland), Joan Massich Vall (Zurich), Scott Labrozzi (Cary, N.C.), Mitchel Jacobs (Malibu, Calif.), Katherine Hinsen (Los Angeles) and Eitan Abecassis (Raleigh, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a hardware processor and a memory storing a video/audio (V/A) synchronizer including video and audio encoders. The hardware processor executes the V/A ...