ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,158, issued on June 24, was assigned to Magic Leap Inc. (Plantation, Fla.).

"Near-field audio rendering" was invented by Remi Samuel Audfray (San Francisco), Jean-Marc Jot (Aptos, Calif.), Samuel Charles Dicker (San Francisco), Mark Brandon Hertensteiner (San Jose, Calif.), Justin Dan Mathew (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.), Anastasia Andreyevna Tajik (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.) and Nicholas John LaMartina (Portland, Maine).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples of the disclosure describe systems and methods for presenting an audio signal to a user of a wearable head device. According to an example method, a source location corresponding to the a...