US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies'Co., 'Ltd.' on May 13 for "Sound masking method and apparatus, and terminal device" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,208, issued on May 13, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Sound masking method and apparatus, and terminal device" was invented by Xiangao Song (Shenzhen, China), Rongrong Wu (Dongguan, China), Jiahe Liu (Shenzhen, China) and Junping Gao (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application discloses a sound masking method and apparatus, and a terminal device. When the terminal device uses a receiver as an output end of an audio signal, the terminal device determines, based on the audio signal, a masking sound signal, and then transmits the masking sound signal by using a speaker. The masking...