US Patent Issued to DOLBY LABORATORIES LICENSING, DOLBY INTERNATIONAL on June 17 for "System and method for optimizing loudness and dynamic range across different playback devices" (Swedish, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,214, issued on June 17, was assigned to DOLBY LABORATORIES LICENSING Corp. (San Francisco) and DOLBY INTERNATIONAL AB (Dublin).

"System and method for optimizing loudness and dynamic range across different playback devices" was invented by Jeffrey Riedmiller (Novato, Calif.), Scott Gregory Norcross (San Rafael, Calif.) and Karl Jonas Roeden (Solna, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments are directed to a method and system for receiving, in a bitstream, metadata associated with the audio data, and analyzing the metadata to determine whether a loudness parameter for a first group of audio playback devices are available in th...