ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,457, issued on May 6, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Techniques for stereo on peripheral devices" was invented by Giriraj Goyal (Bangalore, India), Nitin Raghavendra Kidiyoor (Bangalore, India) and Naveenraj Subramanian (Bangalore, India).

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 first peripheral device may receive audio stream packets sniffed from an owner audio stream assigned to a second peripheral device paired with the first peripheral device. The first peripheral device may receive a synchronization message from the second ...