ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,538,089, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).
"Spatial audio rendering point extension" was invented by Lasse Juhani Laaksonen (Tampere, Finland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method including, determining, for a user located at a location corresponding to a free-viewpoint rendering, a spatial rendering point extension, where the spatial rendering point extension is spaced away from the location in the free-viewpoint rendering, and rendering to the user an audio object based upon the spatial rendering point extension, where without the spatial rendering point extension the audio object is either: n...