ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,227, issued on July 15, was assigned to VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION Co. LTD. (Guangdong, China).

"Video call method and apparatus" was invented by Fangyuan Li (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application provides a video call method and apparatus. The method includes: identifying at least one unread voice message in instant communication content during a video call; determining priority of each of the at least one unread voice message; determining, based on the priority of each unread voice message, a target voice message, where the target voice message is an unread voice message with a highest priority among the a...