ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,233, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to INNIT AUDIO AB (Lund, Sweden).

"Sound reproduction with multiple order HRTF between left and right ears" was invented by Bernt Bohmer (Bjarred, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To locate sound sources in space so called Head Related Transfer Functions (HRTF) are commonly applied. Typically, Head Related Frequency Responses (HRFRs) for hundreds of individuals are averaged to produce average HRFR for each location. The averaged HRFR data is then used for location coding of audio sources in recordings and playback. The presented invention solves the location coding by breaking down the localiza...