US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Nov. 4 for "Synchronizing enhanced audio transports with backward compatible audio transports" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,815, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Synchronizing enhanced audio transports with backward compatible audio transports" was invented by Dipanjan Sen (Dublin, Calif.), Shankar Thagadur Shivappa (San Diego), Nils Gunther Peters (San Diego) and Ferdinando Olivieri (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In general, techniques are described by which to synchronize enhanced audio transports with backward compatible audio transports. A device comprising a memory and one or more processors may be configured to perform the techniques. The memory may store a backward compatible bitstream conforming to a legacy t...