US Patent Issued to Dolby Laboratories Licensing on March 31 for "Hybrid clocking scheme for transmitting packetized audio and power over a common conductor" (Missouri Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,789, issued on March 31, was assigned to Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corp. (San Francisco).

"Hybrid clocking scheme for transmitting packetized audio and power over a common conductor" was invented by Joel Butler (Springfield, Mo.) and Jeremy Sommerfeld (Nixa, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A distributed amplification and packetized audio transmission system for clock synchronization and alignment between an audio/power source and endpoints with dedicated amplifiers and speakers. An Ethernet audio signal is combined with a Power-Line Communications (PLC) signal for transmission from the source to the endpoints over a common con...