ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,116, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to NAUTEL Ltd. (Hackett's Cove, Canada).

"Systems and method for consistent FM/HD1 diversity delay" was invented by Philipp Schmid (Hackett's Cove, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A broadcast system may have less restrictive timing constraints by providing synchronous processing chains for the HD audio portion and the FM audio portion so that no samples are added or removed from when the input audio is first sampled at an input rate and when the signals are combined and output by a digital analog converter operating at an output rate. The signals can be buffered within the synchronous proc...