US Patent Issued to Dolby Laboratories Licensing on Oct. 14 for "Spatial audio rendering adaptive to signal level and loudspeaker playback limit thresholds" (American, Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,791, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corp. (San Francisco).

"Spatial audio rendering adaptive to signal level and loudspeaker playback limit thresholds" was invented by Alan J. Seefeldt (Alameda, Calif.), Joshua B. Lando (Mill Valley, Calif.) and Timothy Alan Port (Drummoyne, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Rendering audio signals may involve a mapping for each audio signal to the loudspeaker signals computed as a function of an audio signal's intended perceived spatial position, physical positions associated with the loudspeakers and a time- and frequency-varying representation of loudspeaker...