ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,064, issued on May 27, was assigned to Magic Leap Inc. (Plantation, Fla.).
"Mixed reality spatial audio" was invented by Brian Lloyd Schmidt (Bellevue, Wash.), Jehangir Tajik (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.) and Jean-Marc Jot (Aptos, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of presenting an audio signal to a user of a mixed reality environment is disclosed. According to examples of the method, an audio event associated with the mixed reality environment is detected. The audio event is associated with a first audio signal. A location of the user with respect to the mixed reality environment is determined. An acoustic region associated wi...