ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,349, issued on May 13, was assigned to Mixhalo Corp. (San Francisco).

"Systems and methods for measurement of multicomponent round-trip audio latency" was invented by Nicholas E. Ansbaugh (Marina Del Rey, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of measuring round-trip audio latency includes communicatively coupling a soundcard to a first mobile device, a second mobile device, and an audio interface. The method also includes transmitting a first audio signal to the soundcard by the first mobile device. The method also includes receiving the first audio signal by the second mobile device via an audio server computing device comm...