US Patent Issued to Apple on July 8 for "Method and system for generating spatial procedural audio" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,166, issued on July 8, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Method and system for generating spatial procedural audio" was invented by Jonathan D. Sheaffer (San Jose, Calif.) and Yelena V. Menyaylenko (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method performed by a programmed processor, the method including receiving an input noise signal, generating, using a machine learning model that has an input based on the input noise signal, a mono audio signal that includes a sound and a spatial parameter for the mono audio signal, and generating spatial audio data by spatially encoding the mono audio signal according to t...