ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,607, issued on March 24, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Multimedia processing method and apparatus based on artificial intelligence, and electronic device" was invented by Gui Huang (Shenzhen, China) and Shuai Tang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multimedia processing method includes: obtaining, in response to an editing operation for a multimedia file, a material editing mode and an interaction template corresponding to a type of a material in the multimedia file; identifying the material in the multimedia file according to the material editing mode, and applying the interaction te...