ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,823, issued on May 13, was assigned to Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Audiovisual rendering apparatus and method of operation therefor" was invented by Paulus Henricus Antonius Dillen (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An audiovisual rendering apparatus comprises a receiver (201) receiving audiovisual items and a receiver (209) receives metadata comprising input poses provided with reference to an input coordinate system and rendering category indications indicating a rendering category. A receiver (213) receives user head movement data and a mapper (211) maps the input poses to rendering pose...