ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,014, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Systems and methods for improved group communication sessions" was invented by Miran Chun (San Diego), Michael Franco Taveira (San Diego), Paul Torres (San Diego), Vinesh Sukumar (Fremont, Calif.) and Joel Linsky (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques are provided for processing audio data. For instance, a process can include obtaining a primary audio signal from a user computing device and obtaining first audio data from an additional computing device, wherein the additional computing device is within an auditory range of the user computing...