ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,073, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Time-domain stereo encoding and decoding method and related product" was invented by Bin Wang (Shenzhen, China), Haiting Li (Beijing) and Lei Miao (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An audio encoding and decoding method and a related apparatus are provided. The audio encoding method includes: determining a channel combination scheme for a current frame; when the channel combination scheme for the current frame is different from a channel combination scheme for a previous frame, performing segmented time-domain downmix processing on left and...