US Patent Issued to Shure Acquisition Holdings on Jan. 27 for "Communications between networked audio devices" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,617, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Shure Acquisition Holdings Inc. (Niles, Ill.).

"Communications between networked audio devices" was invented by Jonathan Portwood (Vernon Hills, Ill.), Kehang Wu (Wilmette, Ill.) and Steve Leib (Evanston, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An audio device may be connected to a communication network. The audio device may send or receive audio data via a network, based on a network clock that may be synchronized with other audio device connected to the network. The audio device may buffer, convert between digital audio signals and analog audio signals, encrypt, decrypt, packetize, depacketize, c...