ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,585, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Transforming spatial audio parameters" was invented by Adriana Vasilache (Tampere, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is inter alia disclosed an apparatus for spatial audio encoding configured to: determine, for two or more audio signals, a first spatial audio direction parameter and a second spatial audio direction parameter for providing spatial audio reproduction: quantize the first spatial audio direction parameter (301); transform the second spatial audio direction parameter to have an opposite spatial audio direction (303); determine a di...