ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,928, issued on May 12, was assigned to VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION Co. LTD. (Guangdong, China).

"Sound channel switching method and apparatus, and electronic device" was invented by Yannan Yan (Guangdong, China) and Liwen You (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A channel switching method and apparatus, and an electronic device, and relates to the field of communication technologies. The method includes: in case that an electronic device plays audio and its target state changes, obtaining its state change parameter, the state change parameter including a folding angle, a rotation angle, or a scaling amplitude; according to t...