US Patent Issued to Apple on Dec. 30 for "Spatial audio reproduction based on head-to-torso orientation" (American, Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,485, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Spatial audio reproduction based on head-to-torso orientation" was invented by Antti J. Vanne (Los Gatos, Calif.), Darius A. Satongar (Santa Clara, Calif.), James W. Vandyke (San Francisco), Juha O. Merimaa (San Mateo, Calif.), Martin E. Johnson (Los Gatos, Calif.) and Tomi A. Huttunen (Kuopio, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A media system and a method of using the media system to reproduce spatial audio based on head-to-torso orientation, are described. The method includes determining a head-to-source orientation and a head-to-torso orientation based on...