ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,028, issued on March 11, was assigned to LISNR INC. (Cincinnati).

"Encoding strategy selection for data transfer using audio transmissions" was invented by Rebekah Farrar (Columbus, Ohio), Oz Mendel (Piedmont, Calif.) and William Knauer (Bellevue, Ky.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for improved transmission and receipt of audio transmissions containing data encoded according to different protocols are presented. In one embodiment, a method is provided that includes receiving a digital data bitstream containing data for transmission using an audio transmission. The digital data bitstream may be divided into a plur...