ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,575, issued on June 10, was assigned to SHANGHAI HODE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Shanghai).

"Method and apparatus of generating audio and video materials" was invented by Kejia Wu (Shanghai), Yiou Li (Shanghai), Qiming Chen (Shanghai), Yiwen Ye (Shanghai), Bonan Ma (Shanghai), Ligen Wang (Shanghai), Sizhen Zhu (Shanghai), Jingwei Li (Shanghai), Weifa Yuan (Shanghai), Jingwei Ma (Shanghai) and Maosu He (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application provides techniques for generating audio and video materials. The techniques comprise receiving an audio and video material generation request for generating a target audio...