ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,273,702, issued on April 8, was assigned to Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corp. (San Francisco).

"Headtracking for pre-rendered binaural audio" was invented by C. Phillip Brown (Castro Valley, Calif.), Joshua Brandon Lando (San Francisco), Mark F. Davis (Pacifica, Calif.), Alan J. Seefeldt (Alameda, Calif.), David Matthew Cooper (Carlton, Australia), Dirk Jeroen Breebaart (Ultimo, Australia) and Rhonda Wilson (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method of modifying a binaural signal using headtracking information. The system calculates a delay, a first filter response, and a second filter response, and applies these ...