ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,980, issued on March 25, was assigned to Acer Inc. (New Taipei, Taiwan).

"Marking method on image combined with sound signal, terminal apparatus, and server" was invented by Po-Jen Tu (New Taipei, Taiwan), Ming-Chun Fang (New Taipei, Taiwan), Jia-Ren Chang (New Taipei, Taiwan), Kai-Meng Tzeng (New Taipei, Taiwan) and Chao-Kuang Yang (New Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A marking method on image combined with sound signal, a terminal apparatus, and a server are provided. In the method, a first image is displayed. A selection command is detected. A target sound signal is embedded into a speech signal so as to generate a ...