US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on March 18 for "Separable, intelligible, single channel voice communication" (New York, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,671, issued on March 18, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Separable, intelligible, single channel voice communication" was invented by Hyman David Chantz (Scarsdale, N.Y.), Robert Lynch (Bedminster, N.J.) and Elijah Swift (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The method provides for separable subchannels sharing a communication channel. A processor receives input of a user setting a transmitter device to a first of at least two subchannels of a communication channel in which the first subchannel comprises a first portion of a bandwidth of the communication channel. The processor rec...