US Patent Issued to Dolby Laboratories Licensing, DOLBY INTERNATIONAL on Jan. 13 for "Methods and systems for generating and rendering object based audio with conditional rendering metadata" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,247, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corp. (San Francisco) and DOLBY INTERNATIONAL AB (Dublin).

"Methods and systems for generating and rendering object based audio with conditional rendering metadata" was invented by Sripal S. Mehta (San Francisco), Thomas Ziegler (Nuremberg, Germany) and Stewart Murrie (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and audio processing units for generating an object based audio program including conditional rendering metadata corresponding to at least one object channel of the program, where the conditional rendering metadata is indicative of at least one rend...