ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,348, issued on May 13, was assigned to HONOR DEVICE Co. LTD. (Shenzhen, China).

"Sound playing method and device" was invented by Jianbin Qiu (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sound playing method and device, relate to the field of artificial intelligence, so as to resolve a problem that a corresponding sound cannot be played on an application that can play both a video and music by using a corresponding sound effect. A specific solution is as follows: when a category of the first application meets a preset condition, playing a sound of the current first application based on a sound effect parameter of a first sound e...