ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,942, issued on April 15, was assigned to Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corp. (San Francisco) and DOLBY INTERNATIONAL AB (Dublin).
"Methods and systems for interactive rendering of object based audio" was invented by Robert Andrew France (Bristol, Great Britain), Thomas Ziegler (Nuremberg, Germany), Sripal S. Mehta (San Francisco), Andrew Jonathan Dowell (Horsham, Great Britain), Prinyar Saungsomboon (Reading, Great Britain), Michael David Dwyer (Royal Wootton Bassett, Great Britain), Farhad Farahani (Los Altos, Calif.), Nicolas R. Tsingos (San Francisco) and Freddie Sanchez (Berkeley, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for g...