Packet8 broadband VoIP, videophone and mobile VoIP communication services, has been granted U.S. Patent No. RE40,054, which is a reissue of United States Patent No. 6,483,532 entitled, "Video-Assisted Audio Signal Processing System and Method."

The patent relates to an arrangement for controlling audio signal transmissions for a communications system that includes a microphone and a video camera. The reissued patent is dated February 12, 2008 and contains eleven new claims which strengthen the Company's intellectual property rights related to this invention.

Since its establishment in 1987, 8x8 has been awarded 71 United States patents covering a variety of voice and video communications and storage technologies.