ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,887, issued on July 22, was assigned to DOLBY LABORATORIES LICENSING Corp. (San Francisco).

"Separation of panned sources from generalized stereo backgrounds using minimal training" was invented by Aaron Steven Master (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an embodiment, a spatio-level filter (SLF) is created by obtaining a first set of samples from a plurality of target source level and spatial distributions in frequency subbands in a frequency domain, obtaining a second set of samples from a plurality of background level and spatial distributions in frequency subbands in a frequency domain, adding the first and second set...