ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,504,943, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Meta Platforms Inc. (Menlo Park, Calif.).
"Multi-application audio splicing" was invented by Samuel Wu (New York) and Alonso Fernandez Baptista (Redwood City, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for multi-application audio splicing may include (1) receiving, from a third-party application installed on a user's device, an audio segment of an audio file selected by the user via an audio-segment-selection interface presented by the third-party application in association with the audio file, (2) loading the audio segment into a post-creation interface of a social media applica...