ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,852, issued on May 6, was assigned to Magic Leap Inc. (Plantation, Fla.).

"Spatial audio for interactive audio environments" was invented by Jean-Marc Jot (Aptos, Calif.), Samuel Charles Dicker (San Francisco), Brian Lloyd Schmidt (Bellevue, Wash.) and Remi Samuel Audfray (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods of presenting an output audio signal to a listener located at a first location in a virtual environment are disclosed. According to embodiments of a method, an input audio signal is received. For each sound source of a plurality of sound sources in the virtual environment, a respective first intermedi...