ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,235, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corp. (San Francisco).

"Device and rendering environment tracking" was invented by Ajit Ninan (San Jose, Calif.) and William Anthony Rozzi (Califon, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Images of an actual rendering environment are acquired through image sensors operating in conjunction with a media consumption system. The acquired images of the actual rendering environment are used to predict audio characteristics of objects present in the actual rendering environment. Spatial audio rendered, to a user in the actual rendering environment, by audio speakers operating i...