ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,320, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to DOPPLE IP B.V. (Assen, Netherlands).

"Wireless stereo headset group communications" was invented by Jacobus Cornelis Haartsen (Rolde, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication protocol provides group communications between at least two wireless headsets. Multiple broadcast links, mutually time staggered, are established between the headsets for sequentially sending broadcast messages between group members. Group members can retransmit and forward one or more received broadcast messages to improve robustness and range. In the receiving headset, audio received in broadcast messages...