ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,152, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Apparatus and method for audio encoding" was invented by Paulus Henricus Antonius Dillen (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Franciscus Marinus Jozephus De Bont (Riethoven, Netherlands) and Jeroen Gerardus Henricus Koppens (Nederweert, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An audio encoding apparatus comprises an audio receiver (201) receiving audio items representing an audio scene and a metadata receiver (203) receives input presentation metadata for the audio items describing presentation constraints for the rendering of the audio items. The p...