ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,087, issued on June 17, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Psychoacoustics-based audio encoding method and apparatus" was invented by Meng Wang (Shenzhen, China), Zhuo Wang (Shenzhen, China) and Fan Fan (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application provides example psychoacoustics-based audio encoding methods and apparatuses. One example method includes receiving audio data. The audio data can be decoded. Auditory feature information of a user can be obtained, where the auditory feature information includes at least one of the following: personal information, listening test result info...