ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,292, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to NBCUniversal Media LLC (New York).

"Systems and methods for determining audio channels in audio data" was invented by Harvey Landy (Moorpark, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The current embodiments relate to an audio processing system that may determine the identity or type of audio channel of audio channels present in audio data. For instance, the audio processing system may include one or more processors that receive audio data that includes a plurality of audio channels, determine a respective type of audio channel for each respective audio channel of the plurality of audio channels, a...