ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,962, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corp. (San Francisco) and DOLBY INTERNATIONAL AB (Dublin).

"Pervasive acoustic mapping" was invented by Mark R. P. Thomas (Walnut Creek, Calif.), Benjamin John Southwell (Gledswood Hills, Australia), Avery Bruni (San Francisco), Olha Michelle Townsend (San Francisco), Daniel Arteaga (Barcelona, Spain), Davide Scaini (Barcelona, Spain), Christopher Graham Hines (Sydney Hills, Australia), Alan J. Seefeldt (Alameda, Calif.), David Gunawan (Sydney) and C. Phillip Brown (Castro Valley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some methods may involve receiving a first conte...