ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,414, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Multi-channel signal encoding method, multi-channel signal decoding method, encoding device, decoding device, and terminal device" was invented by Zhi Wang (Shenzhen, China), Zhe Wang (Beijing) and Haiting Li (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application disclose a multi-channel signal encoding method, a multi-channel signal decoding method, and a terminal device for processing multi-channel signal. The multi-channel signal encoding method includes: obtaining silent flag information of a multi-channel signal, where the silent fla...