ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,093, issued on June 17, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Audio data processing method and apparatus, device, and medium" was invented by Junbin Liang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of this application provide an audio data processing method performed by a computer device. The method includes the following steps: acquiring recorded audio; determining prototype audio matching a background reference audio component of the recorded audio from an audio database; extracting candidate speech audio from the recorded audio according to the prototype audio; determining a difference be...