US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Aug. 19 for "Synchronizing audio streams in cloud-based gaming environment" (Washington, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,390,724, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Synchronizing audio streams in cloud-based gaming environment" was invented by Krishna Kant Chintalapudi (Bellevue, Wash.), Pouya Hamadanian (Cambridge, Mass.), Doug Gallatin (Kirkland, Wash.) and Thomas Pouget-Abadie (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data processing system implements an acoustic delay detection technique for detecting and correcting inter-stream latency between two audio streams in a cloud-based computing environment. A first audio stream of game audio is sent to a controller or headset associated with the cloud-bas...