ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,352, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Linkplay Technology Inc..

"Multi-room multi-channel audio synchronization method, apparatus, and device and storage medium" was invented by Huaijing Wang (Newark, Calif.) and Lifeng Zhao (Newark, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-room multi-channel audio synchronization method, apparatus, and device and a storage medium are provided. In this method, an audio signal to be played in a primary audio device is determined, the audio signal is encoded according to channels by using a preset low-latency audio encoding strategy and audio encoding data is obtained. Next, the audio encoding...