ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,718, issued on June 17, was assigned to Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corp. (San Francisco).

"System and method for adaptive audio signal generation, coding and rendering" was invented by Charles Q. Robinson (Piedmont, Calif.), Nicolas R. Tsingos (San Francisco) and Christophe Chabanne (Carpentras, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments are described for an adaptive audio system that processes audio data comprising a number of independent monophonic audio streams. One or more of the streams has associated with it metadata that specifies whether the stream is a channel-based or object-based stream. Channel-based streams have...