ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,091, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC. (Tokyo).

"Audio collision queue" was invented by Celeste Bean (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for setting a vocal collision queue is disclosed. A plurality of incoming audio streams associated with a plurality of user devices currently involved in a communication session is recorded. There is an overlap between portions of two or more of the audio streams in the communication session that is identified. A queue for the two or more identified audio streams is determined. The queue includes a sequence to the identified audi...