US Patent Issued to FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG on Oct. 14 for "Apparatus and method for reproducing a spatially extended sound source or apparatus and method for generating a bitstream from a spatially extended sound source" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,796, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V. (Munich).

"Apparatus and method for reproducing a spatially extended sound source or apparatus and method for generating a bitstream from a spatially extended sound source" was invented by Jurgen Herre (Erlangen, Germany), Emanuel Habets (Erlangen, Germany), Sebastian Schlecht (Erlangen, Germany) and Alexander Adami (Erlangen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for reproducing a spatially extended sound source having a defined position and geometry in a space includes an interface for receiving a listener posi...