US Patent Issued to DOLBY LABORATORIES LICENSING, DOLBY INTERNATIONAL on May 27 for "Methods, apparatus and systems for encoding and decoding of directional sound sources" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,521, issued on May 27, was assigned to DOLBY LABORATORIES LICENSING Corp. (San Francisco) and DOLBY INTERNATIONAL AB (Dublin).

"Methods, apparatus and systems for encoding and decoding of directional sound sources" was invented by Nicolas R. Tsingos (San Francisco), Mark R. P. Thomas (Walnut Creek, Calif.) and Christof Fersch (Neumarkt, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some disclosed methods involve encoding or decoding directional audio data. Some encoding methods may involve receiving a mono audio signal corresponding to an audio object and a representation of a radiation pattern corresponding to the audio object. The radiati...