ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,653, issued on April 8, was assigned to REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR CORP. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Audio processing apparatus and audio processing method for dynamically adjusting audio clock" was invented by Zhen-Peng Yang (Jiangsu Province, China), Dong-Yu He (Jiangsu Province, China) and Jian Sun (Jiangsu Province, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An audio processing apparatus and an audio processing method for dynamically adjusting an audio clock are provided. The audio processing apparatus includes a first interface, a buffer, a clock generator, a processor, and a second interface. The first interface receives audio data from the host....