ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,366, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Supporting multiple audio endpoints with a single integrated inter-chip sound controller" was invented by Basavaraj Hiregoudar (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing system implementing a single Integrated Inter-chip Sound (I2S) controller supports simultaneous playback of audio data on different audio endpoints. The computing system maps a first set of audio data to a first set of transmission slots associated with a transmission channel of the single I2S controller. The computing system also maps a second set of audio d...