ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,925, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Real-time voice processing" was invented by Thomas Girardier (Poisy, France), Julien Goupy (Le Mesnil-Saint-Denis, France) and Etienne Ruffieux (Paris).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and machine-readable media facilitate voice distribution. A wireless, bidirectional audio link with each auxiliary device of a plurality of auxiliary devices may be established and simultaneously managed. A first audio signal comprising a first vocal message may be received as input. A third audio signal may be simultaneously received with receipt of the first a...