US Patent Issued to DOLBY LABORATORIES LICENSING on Oct. 7 for "Virtualizer for binaural audio" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,218, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to DOLBY LABORATORIES LICENSING Corp. (San Francisco).

"Virtualizer for binaural audio" was invented by C. Phillip Brown (Castro Valley, Calif.), Yuxing Hao (Beijing), Xuemei Yu (Beijing) and Zilong Yang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for providing a binaural virtualization by upmixing the left and right input signals to produce left, right, and center channels, mixing the left and right input signals with the upmixed left and right channels respectively at a proportion given by a center-only reverb amount value, then reverberating the output of the mixing prior to virtu...