ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,389,185, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to DENTSU INC. (Tokyo).
"Audio content distribution system" was invented by Mihoko Hotta (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An audio content distribution system includes a server device and a user terminal. The server device includes an audio-data acquisition unit that acquires audio data from a distribution source, an audio-content-data generation unit that adds, to the audio data, acoustic-effect setting information indicating whether to add echo and/or attenuation of sound in a virtual reality space, and generates audio content data, and an audio-content-data distribution unit that distribut...