ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,395,930, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Robustness and power saving for a stereo voice back channel in an extended personal area network" was invented by Hemant Gupta (Hyderabad, India), Mayank Batra (Cambridge, Great Britain), Sriman Miryala (Hyderabad, India) and Richard Cardoe (Fen Drayton, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a wireless communication device may transmit, to one or more peripheral devices, downlink audio packets associated with a left audio channel and a right audio channel dur...