US Patent Issued to Apple on July 15 for "Spatial audio using near-field and far-field rendering" (California, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,492, issued on July 15, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Spatial audio using near-field and far-field rendering" was invented by Symeon Delikaris Manias (Los Angeles) and Peter A. Raffensperger (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device may include a plurality of microphones, and a processor configured to extract a sound and a sound field from microphone signals of the plurality of microphones. The sound may be treated as near-field sound and the sound field may be treated as far-field sound. The device may adjust a strength of the sound based on a strength of the sound field and apply near-field head r...