ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,086, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Zoom Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Audio synchronization using broadcast messages" was invented by Saar Litman (Montclair, N.J.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Broadcast messages that each includes a conference identifier of a conference to which the device is joined are transmitted from a device. Each broadcast message includes a respective indication of an audio frame of first audio frames of an audio stream of the conference. A broadcast message that includes the conference identifier of the conference and an indication of a received frame number is received from another device that ...