ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,243, issued on March 18, was assigned to Linkplay Technology Inc. (Newark, Calif.).

"Audio playback method and apparatus, electronic device and storage medium" was invented by Ning Liu (Newark, Calif.), Qi Wang (Newark, Calif.) and Lifeng Zhao (Newark, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An audio playback method includes: performing, in a parallel manner, digital audio signal encoding on original audio data to be played back, to obtain a plurality of pieces of target encoded audio data; performing encapsulation on the plurality of pieces of target encoded audio data to obtain a plurality of target audio frames, and synchronizing t...