ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,242, issued on March 18, was assigned to Tencent America LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Recommending audio mixing parameters by audio stream sender" was invented by Rohit Abhishek (Mountain View, Calif.) and Iraj Sodagar (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure include methods, apparatuses, and non-transitory computer-readable storage mediums for processing media streams. An apparatus includes processing circuitry that sends a message to a media aware network element that is configured to process a plurality of audio streams of a conference call. The message indicates that the plurality of audio streams is to...