ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,963, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Method and apparatus for fusion of virtual scene description and listener space description" was invented by Sujeet Shyamsundar Mate (Tampere, Finland), Antti Eronen (Tampere, Finland) and Jussi Leppanen (Tampere, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for rendering an audio scene in a physical space including circuitry configured to: determine a listening position within the physical space during rendering; obtain at least one information of a virtual scene to render the virtual scene according to the at least one information; obtain at lea...