ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,418, issued on April 7, was assigned to Sonova AG (Staefa, Switzerland).

"Method and system for transmitting audio signals" was invented by Federico Ferrari (Lugano, Switzerland), Mauro Candela (Cressier, Switzerland), Oleksiy Kasilov (Bern, Switzerland), Georg Dickmann (Ebmatingen, Switzerland), Amre El-Hoiydi (Neuchatel, Switzerland) and Yves Oesch (Neuchatel, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a method for transmitting audio signals, comprising: establishing a wireless link utilizing Bluetooth LE Audio between an audio signal transmission unit and an audio signal receiver unit; transmitting BIS data PDUs ...