US Patent Issued to Dolby Laboratories Licensing on April 8 for "Method, systems and apparatus for hybrid near/far virtualization for enhanced consumer surround sound" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,273,701, issued on April 8, was assigned to Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corp. (San Francisco).

"Method, systems and apparatus for hybrid near/far virtualization for enhanced consumer surround sound" was invented by Nicolas R. Tsingos (San Francisco), Satej Suresh Pankey (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Vimal Puthanveed (Tracy, Calif.), Poppy Anne Carrie Crum (Oakland, Calif.), Jeffrey Ross Baker (Thousand Oaks, Calif.), Ian Eric Esten (San Francisco), Scott Daly (Kalama, Wash.) and Daniel Paul Darcy (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments are disclosed for hybrid near/far-field speaker virtualization. In an embodiment, a method co...