ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,785,834, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to iBiquity Digital Corp. (Columbia, Md.).

"Method for time aligning in-band on-channel digital radio audio with FM radio audio" was invented by William Snelling (Calabasas, Calif.), Russell Iannuzzelli (Calabasas, Calif.), Paul J. Peyla (Calabasas, Calif.) and Jeffrey S. Baird (Calabasas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method comprises: receiving a first audio stream that conveys audio content and a second audio stream that conveys the audio content and is delayed relative to the first audio stream by a time delay; one-sided filtering first audio segments of the first audio stream to pass ...