ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,991, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to VIZIO INC. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for mitigating radio-frequency latency wireless devices" was invented by Kishore Tallapaneni (Flower Mound, Texas), Maksym Shestirko (Addison, Texas), Rammohan Somalraju (Irving, Texas), Oleksandr Blazhko (Des Plaines, Ill.) and W. Leo Hoarty (Morgan Hill, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and method are provided for detecting latency in radio frequency connections. A computing device can detect, at a first time, light using an optical sensor and receive, at a second time, a first data packet over a connection with a first wireless d...