ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,666, issued on April 29, was assigned to REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR CORP. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Bluetooth audio broadcasting system and related multi-member bluetooth device supporting bluetooth low energy audio broadcasting operations and capable of avoiding user from missing external alert signals or specific sounds" was invented by Yi-Cheng Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Bi Wei (Suzhou, China), Yu Hsuan Liu (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Chia Chun Hung (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A Bluetooth audio broadcasting system includes: an audio broadcasting device arranged to operably broadcast BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy) audio packets; a first...