ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,189, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Managing audio assets" was invented by Natalie Bennett (Mountain View, Calif.) and Lucy Mao (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for managing audio assets includes selecting a content item for display at multiple geographic locations, including selecting a plurality of variants corresponding to the respective geographic locations. The variants include a shared component of the content item. The method also includes determining a set of audio components, where each of the variants includes two or more audio components of the set of aud...