US Patent Issued to Dolby Laboratories Licensing, Dolby International on Sept. 30 for "Immersive voice and audio services (IVAS) with adaptive downmix strategies" (Australian, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,145, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corp. (San Francisco) and Dolby International AB (Dublin).

"Immersive voice and audio services (IVAS) with adaptive downmix strategies" was invented by Harald Mundt (Furth, Germany), David S. McGrath (Rose Bay, Australia) and Rishabh Tyagi (Sydney).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is an audio signal encoding/decoding method that uses an encoding downmix strategy applied at an encoder that is different than a decoding re-mix/upmix strategy applied at a decoder. Based on the type of downmix coding scheme, the method comprises: computing input downmixing gains...