ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,113, issued on April 14, was assigned to Meta Platforms Inc. (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Synchronizing audio and video data" was invented by Xueting Yan (Newark, Calif.), Hao Li (San Carlos, Calif.), Qin Huang (Foster City, Calif.), Jodi Jiaming Huang (Mountain View, Calif.), Siyuan Yu (Fremont, Calif.), Jing Yang Zhang (Seattle), Yu-Chih Tung (Cupertino, Calif.), Hao Huang (Pleasanton, Calif.) and Yuncheng Wu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and storage media for synchronizing audio and video data are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: receive at least one visual media file; receive audio data; d...