ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,090, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corp. (San Francisco).

"Timestamp smoothing to remove jitter" was invented by Shanush Prema Thasarathan (North Paramatta, Australia), Ning Wang (Epping, Australia) and Senaka Chandranath Samarasekera (Baulkham Hills, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments are disclosed for timestamp smoothing to remove jitter. In some embodiments, a method of smoothing timestamps associated with audio packets comprises: receiving, using at least one processor, a series of input timestamps for audio packets and their respective packet lengths; estimating, using the at l...