ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,246, issued on July 15, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Recording method and device" was invented by Xiao Yang (Shenzhen, China), Zhou Zhu (Shanghai), Hao Zheng (Shanghai), Yinan Zhang (Shanghai) and Liangfei Lu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A distributed recording system includes a first device and one or more second devices. The first device sends a distributed recording instruction, to control the one or more second devices to perform recording. The one or more second devices send audio data obtained through recording to an upper-layer recording application."

The patent was filed on Ju...