ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,708,849, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to NETEASE (HANGZHOU) NETWORK Co. LTD. (Hangzhou City, China).

"Method and apparatus for processing audio in game, and storage medium and electronic apparatus" was invented by Mingzhe Liu (Hangzhou, China), Meng Li (Hangzhou, China), Junping Wang (Baoding, China), Xiaoping He (Shenzhen, China), Shengqiang Wu (Hangzhou, China), Haiyu Zhang (Qingdao, China) and Zijian Tang (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for processing audio in a game includes: determining a target position of a virtual game character in a game scene; determining, based on the target position, a target spati...