US Patent Issued to Dolby International on July 29 for "Methods, apparatus and system for rendering an audio program" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,344, issued on July 29, was assigned to Dolby International AB (Dublin).

"Methods, apparatus and system for rendering an audio program" was invented by Christof Fersch (Neumarkt, Germany) and Alexander Stahlmann (Bubenreuth, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for generating a bitstream indicative of an object based audio program is described. The bitstream comprises a sequence of containers. A first container of the sequence of containers comprises a plurality of substream entities for a plurality of substreams of the object based audio program and a presentation section. The method comprises determining a set of object ...