ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,871, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).
"Spatial audio service" was invented by Lasse Juhani Laaksonen (Tampere, Finland), Arto Juhani Lehtiniemi (Lempaala, Finland) and Antti Johannes Eronen (Tampere, Finland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, apparatus and computer program are provided for assessing a continuity of audio service by comparing a previous audio service with a first spatial audio service that uses user head-tracking and a second audio service to identify which of the first or second spatial audio service provides a continuity of audio service with respect to the previous au...