ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,692, issued on June 10, was assigned to Starkey Laboratories Inc. (Eden Prairie, Minn.).

"Synchronization of audio streams and sampling rate for wireless communication" was invented by Alex Volkov (Eden Prairie, Minn.), Baktash Boghrati (Eden Prairie, Minn.), Edward John Cunningham (Savage, Minn.), Mohammad Reza Movahedi (Minnetonka, Minn.) and Jeffrey Paul Solum (Greenwood, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein, among other things, are methods and apparatus for providing a time-stamp based controller for synchronization of sink or source sampling rate with external packet rate. A method for wireless communications in...