US Patent Issued to Dolby Laboratories Licensing on Aug. 5 for "Encoding of multi-channel audio signals comprising downmixing of a primary and two or more scaled non-primary input channels" (Australian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,898, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corp. (San Francisco).

"Encoding of multi-channel audio signals comprising downmixing of a primary and two or more scaled non-primary input channels" was invented by David S. McGrath (New South Wales, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and computer program products are disclosed for adaptive downmixing of audio signals with improved continuity. An audio encoding system receives an input multi-channel audio signal including a primary input audio channel and L non-primary input audio channels. The system determines a set of L input gains. For eac...