ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,725, issued on March 11, was assigned to Mixhalo Corp. (San Francisco).

"Systems and methods for providing real-time audio and data" was invented by Michael Einziger (Santa Monica, Calif.), Ann Marie Simpson (Santa Monica, Calif.), Darren LaGroe (Westlake Village, Calif.) and Michal Pietras (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of delivering audio to one or more client computing devices includes receiving, by an audio server computing device, a live audio signal starting at a first time; processing, by the audio server computing device, the live audio signal, thereby creating a data representation of the live audio signal;...