ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,797, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to DOLBY LABORATORIES LICENSING Corp. (San Francisco).

"Scalable binaural audio stream generation" was invented by Khoa-Van Nguyen (Begles, France), Stephane Giraudie (Sausalito, Calif.) and Benoit Senard (Le Bouscat, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described is a method performed by a computation device for generating a binaural audio stream, comprising: receiving an audio stream for a sound source; determining a measure of processing capability of the computation device; selecting, based on the determined measure, a filtering mode from among a predefined set of filtering modes for use in a...