ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,698, issued on June 23, was assigned to Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corp. (San Francisco).

"Systems and methods to generate copies of data for transmission over multiple communication channels" was invented by Mingchao Yu (Sydney) and Mark Craig Reed (Gordon, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods to transmit data over multiple communication channels in parallel with forward error correction. Original packets are evenly distributed to the channels as the initial systematically channel-encoded packets. Subsequent channel-encoded packets are configured to be linearly independent of their base sets of channel-enco...