ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,503, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Method for determining audio coding/decoding mode 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: "A method for determining an audio coding mode and a related apparatus are provided. The method may include: determining a channel combination scheme for a current frame, where the determined channel combination scheme for the current frame is one of a plurality of channel combination schemes; and determining a coding mode of the current frame based on a channe...