ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,238,362, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Tencent America LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Consistence of acoustic and visual scenes" was invented by Jun Tian (Belle Mead, N.J.), Xiaozhong Xu (State College, Pa.) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Media content data of an object is received. Whether a first parameter indicated by a first description of the object in an acoustic scene and a second parameter indicated by a second description of the object in a visual scene are inconsistent is determined. Based on the first parameter indicated by the first description of the object in the acoustic scene and the second ...