ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,227, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Simplified meshes for acoustics" was invented by Dirk Schroeder (San Jose, Calif.), Baptiste Angles (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Ming Chuang (Bellevue, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods that provide realistic acoustic simulation for sound from a virtual source based on a site specific 3D acoustic model of a physical environment. Some implementations obtain first sensor data representing at least a portion of a first boundary of a physical environment while second sensor data correspondi...