ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,252, issued on May 13, was assigned to Voyetra Turtle Beach Inc. (White Plans, N.Y.).
"Method and system for inter-headset communications via data over in-game audio" was invented by Richard Kulavik (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gaming headset receives a chat audio channel that conveys chat audio. The gaming headset includes a modem that modulates data for communication over the chat audio channel, and transmits the modulated data on the chat audio channel that conveys the chat audio. The modulated data may be communicated, via the chat audio channel, to one or more devices associated with one or more other gamer...