US Patent Issued to Dolby Laboratories Licensing, DOLBY INTERNATIONAL on Nov. 11 for "Spatial audio signal manipulation" (Swedish, American, Australian, Spanish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,888, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corp. (San Francisco) and DOLBY INTERNATIONAL AB (Dublin).

"Spatial audio signal manipulation" was invented by Dirk Jeroen Breebaart (Ultimo, Australia), Antonio Mateos Sole (Barcelona, Spain), Heiko Purnhagen (Sundbyberg, Sweden) and Nicolas R. Tsingos (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein is a method (30) of rendering an audio signal (17) for playback in an audio environment (27) defined by a target loudspeaker system (23), the audio signal (17) including audio data relating to an audio object and associated position data indicative of an ...