US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on Dec. 30 for "Earbud-to-earbud cross-acknowledgement and communication relay" (American, Portuguese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,451, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Earbud-to-earbud cross-acknowledgement and communication relay" was invented by Daniel Barros (Sra da Hora, Portugal) and Sunil Kumar (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various arrangements for short-range wireless communication between audio output devices, such as true wireless earbuds, are presented herein. A first earbud of a pair of earbuds may determine that a first audio packet addressed to the first earbud from an audio source was not properly received. However, a second earbud of the pair of earbuds may properly receive the first audi...