US Patent Issued to Dolby Laboratories Licensing on Aug. 5 for "Echo reference prioritization and selection" (Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,873, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corp. (San Francisco).

"Echo reference prioritization and selection" was invented by Benjamin John Southwell (Gledwood Hills, Australia), Christopher Graham Hines (Sydney) and David Gunawan (Sydney).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some implementations involve obtaining a plurality of echo references, the plurality of echo references including at least one echo reference for each audio device of a plurality of audio devices in an audio environment, each echo reference corresponding to audio data being played back by one or more loudspeakers of one audio device of the plu...