ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,091, issued on March 25, was assigned to Beijing Zitiao Network Technology Co. Ltd. (Beijing).

"Video playing method and apparatus, and device and storage medium" was invented by Wentao Ruan (Beijing), Weiming Zheng (Beijing), Zefan Jiang (Beijing) and Jiongyan Zhang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed in the embodiments of the present disclosure are a video playing method and apparatus, and a device and a storage medium. The method comprises: detecting that a preset application program is switched from a non-background running state to a background running state during the process of playing a first video; continuing ...