US Patent Issued to Apple on July 15 for "3D audio rendering using volumetric audio rendering and scripted audio level-of-detail" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,497, issued on July 15, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"3D audio rendering using volumetric audio rendering and scripted audio level-of-detail" was invented by David Thall (Palo Alto, Calif.), Christopher A. Wolfe (San Jose, Calif.) and James E. McCartney (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An audio engine is provided for acoustically rendering a three-dimensional virtual environment. The audio engine uses geometric volumes to represent sound sources and any sound occluders. A volumetric response is generated based on sound projected from a volumetric sound source to a listener, taking into consideration...