US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on July 29 for "Efficient multi-emitter soundfield reverberation" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,869, issued on July 29, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Efficient multi-emitter soundfield reverberation" was invented by Andrew Stewart Allen (San Diego) and Nikunj Raghuvanshi (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for generating a simulated reverberation sound signal are disclosed. This simulated reverberation sound signal operates as a reverberation effect for a sound associated with a source. The simulated reverberation sound signal is generated using a truncated sound signal that (i) repeats in a decaying manner over time, (ii) has a perceivable arrival direction that app...