ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,941, issued on May 12, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Tracking control method and apparatus, storage medium, and computer program product" was invented by Lei Zhang (Dongguan, China) and Zhihui Liu (Dongguan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of this application disclose a tracking control method. When a sound source object makes a sound, a control device determines an azimuth Theta1 of the sound source object relative to a first microphone array based on detection data of the first microphone array, and determines an azimuth Theta2 of the sound source object relative to a second microp...