ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,089, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Communication apparatus and communication system" was invented by Toshihisa Hyakudai (San Diego), Junya Yamada (Kanagawa, Japan) and Satoshi Ota (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Communication apparatus with correct audio signal regeneration are disclosed. In one example, a communication apparatus includes a counter that counts the number of a predetermined reference clock included in one cycle of a divided signal of an audio master clock with a frequency that is equal to a product of a frequency of a sampling clock for sampli...