ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,273,586, issued on April 8, was assigned to HISENSE VISUAL TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Qingdao, China).

"Multimedia apparatus and cast method" was invented by Ziquan Song (Shandong, China), Xiujuan Pang (Shandong, China), Xuesheng Zhu (Shandong, China) and Chengchuang Xiao (Shandong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application is directed to a multimedia apparatus and a cast method. The method includes: during a cast process between a display apparatus and multiple devices, determining a target device from among the multiple devices; storing audio data which is sent from the target device in an audio buffer, and discarding audi...