ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,677,095, issued on July 7, was assigned to NXP B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Synchronization between Bluetooth audio transmitters for collision avoidance" was invented by Pieter Verschueren (Langdorp, Belgium) and Sammy Geeraerts (Nieuwrode, Belgium).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus are described for synchronization between Bluetooth audio transmitters. In one example, an audio source includes a synchronization bus. A first audio transmitter is coupled to the audio source and to the synchronization bus. The first audio transmitter is configured to assess available radio channels, select a set of radio channels, send ...