US Patent Issued to REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR on Sept. 16 for "Audio synchronous circuit and audio synchronous method" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,068, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR CORP. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Audio synchronous circuit and audio synchronous method" was invented by ZhaoMing Li (Suzhou, China), YiDong He (Suzhou, China) and TianYi Zhu (Suzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are an audio synchronous circuit and an audio synchronous method. The audio synchronous circuit receives at least one beacon packet to generate WiFi time synchronization function (TSF) data, compares the WiFi TSF data with I2S TSF data according to a synchronous control signal to obtain a frequency offset, and compensates a digital audio clock accordi...