ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,539, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Sonos Experience Ltd. (Hayes, Great Britain).

"Method and system for improved acoustic transmission of data" was invented by Daniel John Jones (London) and James Andrew Nesfield (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method for communicating data acoustically. The method includes segmenting the data into a sequence of symbols; encoding each symbol of the sequence into a plurality of tones; and acoustically generating the plurality of tones simultaneously for each symbol in sequence. Each of the plurality of tones for each symbol in the sequence may be at a dif...