ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,105, issued on April 15, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Method and apparatus for efficient delivery of edge based rendering of 6DoF mpeg-i immersive audio" was invented by Sujeet Shyamsundar Mate (Tampere, Finland), Lasse Juhani Laaksonen (Tampere, Finland) and Antti Johannes Eronen (Tampere, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for generating a spatialized audio output based on a user position, the apparatus including circuitry configured to: obtain a user position value; obtain at least one input audio signal and associated metadata enabling a rendering of the at least one input audio signal;...