ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,312, issued on July 1, was assigned to Dolby International AB (Dublin).

"Wireless transmission and reception of packetized audio data in combination with forward error correction" was invented by Gael Lassure (Fuerth, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for transmitting and receiving an audio stream are provided. For transmission, the method involves obtaining a frame of an audio signal, determining a number of source blocks to divide the frame of the audio signal into and a number of parity blocks to generate for forward error correction, wherein the number of source blocks and the number of parity blocks are determined ba...