ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,931, issued on June 24, was assigned to Sonos Experience Ltd. (Hayes, Great Britain).
"Method and system for acoustic communication of data" was invented by Daniel John Jones (London) and James Andrew Nesfield (Edinburgh, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method for receiving data transmitted acoustically. The method includes the steps of receiving an acoustically transmitted signal; and decoding the signal using, at least, a first plurality of voters to extract the data. The first plurality of voters comprise differing values for a first acoustic characteristic to address interference. A...