US Patent Issued to Dolby Laboratories Licensing, Dolby International on Oct. 14 for "Automatic localization of audio devices" (Spanish, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,793, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corp. (San Francisco) and Dolby International AB (Dublin).

"Automatic localization of audio devices" was invented by Daniel Arteaga (Barcelona, Spain), Davide Scaini (Barcelona, Spain), Mark R. P. Thomas (Walnut Creek, Calif.), Avery Bruni (San Francisco) and Olha Michelle Townsend (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method may involve: receiving direction of arrival (DOA) data corresponding to sound emitted by at least a first smart audio device of the audio environment that includes a first audio transmitter and a first audio receiver, the DOA data cor...