US Patent Issued to Dolby Laboratories Licensing on July 1 for "Audio device auto-location" (American, Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,937, issued on July 1, was assigned to Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corp. (San Francisco).

"Audio device auto-location" was invented by Mark R. P. Thomas (Walnut Creek, Calif.), Glenn Dickins (Como, Australia) and Alan Seefeldt (Alameda, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for estimating an audio device location in an environment may involve obtaining direction of arrival (DOA) data for each audio device of a plurality of audio devices in the environment and determining interior angles for each of a plurality of triangles based on the DOA data. Each triangle may have vertices that correspond with audio device locations. The...