US Patent Issued to Apple on Dec. 2 for "Method and system for encoding and wirelessly transmitting stereo audio content for audio communication" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,803, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Method and system for encoding and wirelessly transmitting stereo audio content for audio communication" was invented by Aarti Kumar (Los Altos, Calif.), Eric A. Allamanche (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Su Fu (Mountain View, Calif.) and Leijun Dong (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are systems and methods to modify the Bluetooth mono HFP protocol to support bi-directional stereo operation for high bandwidth audio including 12-KHz wide-band, 16-KHz super wide-band (SWB), and 24-KHz full band (FB) audio. The techniques leverage the larger packet siz...