ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,627, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Multi-channel audio signal encoding method and apparatus" was invented by Zhi Wang (Beijing), Jiance Ding (Beijing), Bin Wang (Shenzhen, China), Haiting Li (Beijing) and Zhe Wang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are a multi-channel audio signal encoding method and apparatus. Audio signals of P channels in a current frame of a multi-channel audio signal can be obtained, where the audio signals of the P channels include audio signals of K channel pairs; respective bit quantities of the K channel pairs are determined based on the r...