ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,126, issued on April 21, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Multi-channel signal encoding and decoding method and apparatus" was invented by Xianbo Meng (Beijing), Bingyin Xia (Beijing) and Zhe Wang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a multi-channel signal encoding method, a current frame includes a first sound channel and a second sound channel. First group information of M blocks of the first sound channel and second group information of M blocks of the second sound channel are obtained. When the first group information and the second group information meet a preset condition, first adjusted ...