ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,561, issued on June 3, was assigned to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. (Munich).

"Method and apparatus for efficient delivery and usage of audio messages for high quality of experience" was invented by Adrian Murtaza (Erlangen, Germany), Harald Fuchs (Erlangen, Germany), Bernd Czelhan (Erlangen, Germany) and Jan Plogsties (Erlangen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and a system for virtual reality, augmented reality, mixed reality, or 360-degree Video environment is disclosed. The system receives Video Streams associated to audio and video scenes to be reproduced and Audio Streams as...