ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,220, issued on July 15, was assigned to HONOR DEVICE Co. LTD. (Shenzhen, China).

"Audio output method and terminal device" was invented by Lirong Zhang (Shenzhen, China), Chao Le (Shenzhen, China), Bo Ling (Shenzhen, China), Li Li (Shenzhen, China) and Zhongyin Jiang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An audio output method and system including first and second electronic devices and an audio output device. The first and second devices are connected to a network using a system authentication account, the first device has installed thereon a music application, and the second device has installed thereon a voice call appli...