US Patent Issued on July 7 for "Wireless coordination of audio sources" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. RE50,946, issued on July 7.

"Wireless coordination of audio sources" was invented by Gaylord Yu (San Francisco) and Steven Stupp (Foster City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An audio/video (A/V) hub that coordinates playback of audio content is described. In particular, the A/V hub may calculate current time offsets between clocks in electronic devices and a clock in the A/V hub based on differences between transmit times of frames from the electronic devices and receive times when the frames were received. For example, the current time offsets may be calculated using wireless ranging by ignoring distances between the A/V hub and the ...