ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,883, issued on May 5, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"Split input/output system and method for multimedia communications" was invented by Lars Benjamin Johnson (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Wei Wang (Montclair, N.J.), Rachel Rosencrantz (Seattle) and Mikhail Istomin (Brooklyn, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a device including a processing system including a processor; and a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processing system, facilitate performance of operations of facilitating establishment of a communications path betw...