ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,604, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Harman International Industries Inc. (Stamford, Conn.).

"Multi-source audio broadcast to an audio sink device" was invented by Mien Chin Chen (Richardson, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One embodiment sets forth a technique for managing an audio broadcast. The technique includes transmitting first access information for a first audio stream to one or more sink devices, wherein the first access information is used by the sink device(s) to play first audio content transmitted from a first source device and the first audio content is transmitted over the first audio stream. The technique als...