ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,065, issued on May 27, was assigned to DOLBY LABORATORIES LICENSING Corp. (San Francisco).

"Methods and systems for designing and applying numerically optimized binaural room impulse responses" was invented by Grant A. Davidson (Burlingame, Calif.), Kuan-Chieh Yen (Foster City, Calif.) and Dirk Jeroen Breebaart (Ultimo, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for designing binaural room impulse responses (BRIRs) for use in headphone virtualizers, and methods and systems for generating a binaural signal in response to a set of channels of a multi-channel audio signal, including by applying a BRIR to each channel o...