ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,820, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to DOUYIN VISION (BEIJING) Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Audio playing method, apparatus and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium" was invented by Xinyi Li (Beijing), Haoran Zhang (Beijing), Peijun Guo (Beijing) and Ruie Gao (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to an audio playing method, apparatus and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, and relates to the field of audio processing. The audio playing method includes: playing an audio clip of an audio content for a browsing user, in a case where the browsing user browses to the audio content in a feed;...