ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,590, issued on July 8, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Audio processing method and apparatus based on artificial intelligence, device, storage medium, and computer program product" was invented by Yibin Zheng (Shenzhen, China), Xinhui Li (Shenzhen, China), Wenchao Su (Shenzhen, China) and Li Lu (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are an audio processing method performed by an electronic device, a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, and a computer program product. The method includes: sampling multiple fragments of audio data of a target object to obtain reference audio...