ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,043, issued on July 8, was assigned to BEIJING ZITIAO NETWORK TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Method, apparatus, electronic device and storage medium for playback control" was invented by Wenshu Zhang (Beijing), Ziwei Li (Beijing) and Huayun Miao (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The embodiment of the invention provides a method, an apparatus, an electronic device and a storage medium for playback control. The method comprises the following steps: playing a first video in a video playback page; in response to target triggering on the video playback page, stopping displaying a video screen of the first video, and playing audio da...