US Patent Issued to Sonitor Technologies AS on June 30 for "Low level smartphone audio and sensor clock synchronization" (Norwegian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,959, issued on June 30, was assigned to Sonitor Technologies AS (Oslo, Norway).

"Low level smartphone audio and sensor clock synchronization" was invented by Wilfred Edwin Booij (Oslo, Norway), Kjetil Haslum (Oslo, Norway), Fritjof Boger Engelhardtsen (Oslo, Norway) and Endre Bakka (Oslo, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An approach to obtain low latency association of the audio clock in a smartphone with an incoming RF message is to use an interrupt driven routine, where the receipt of the RF message preamble generates an interrupt that reads the audio clock counter since the start of the audio session. In some embodiments such...