ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,093, issued on March 31, was assigned to TogetherSound LLC (St. Louis).

"Systems and methods for synchronizing remote media streams" was invented by Brian Shaw (Napa, Calif.) and Steve Melnick (St. Louis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure describes systems and methods for dynamic synchronization of media streams from remote users. A latency matrix between all participants is generated and participants within acceptable synchronization windows are grouped together. Earlier media streams are buffered and started in synchronization with later streams locally at each client device. To provide an improved experience fo...