US Patent Issued to Verizon Patent and Licensing on Nov. 11 for "Systems and methods for enhancing audio for a video conferencing application" (California, Texas, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,670, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Systems and methods for enhancing audio for a video conferencing application" was invented by Lily Zhu (Parsippany, N.J.), Rohit Sonalkar (Danville, Calif.), Alagu Periyannan (Palo Alto, Calif.), Timothy M. Dwight (Richardson, Texas) and Brian T. Mecum (Aliso Diejo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network device may receive a request for functionality to switch to wideband audio at a user device receiving over-the-top (OTT) video and OTT audio associated with a video conferencing application provided by an application server. The...