ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,887, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Method and system for sharing audio stream" was invented by Huanhuan Yuan (Beijing), Tianru Zhang (Beijing), Jingxuan Qi (Beijing), Haoheng Wang (Beijing) and Di Xu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for sharing an audio stream includes: in response to receiving an audio sharing request, obtaining by a first device, state information of a second device; displaying by the first device, identification information of the second device based on the state information of the second device; and in response to receiving a sharing trigger...