ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,527, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Skyworks Solutions Inc. (Irvine, Calif.).

"System and method for routing audio signals with header data" was invented by Bruce Charles Nepple (Portland, Ore.), Adam Christopher Braun (Portland, Ore.) and Robert L. Mays (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for processing audio data includes an isochronous data interface to output a first stream of audio data, a plurality of output sample rate converters to output a second stream of audio data, a plurality of transaction control registers to control routing of the first stream of audio data between the isochronous data interface ...