ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,949, issued on June 30, was assigned to ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Synchronized audio streaming from multiple controllers" was invented by Carl Kittredge Wakeland (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Uma Sankara Rao Balla (Hyderabad, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processing system includes a hardware synchronizer to synchronize the transmission of audio data from multiple I2S controllers of a processing system to one or more audio codecs. In some embodiments, each of the I2S controllers receives audio data from one or more audio data sources and stores the audio data at a buffer associated with the controller. ...