ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,006, issued on July 22, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).
"Associated spatial audio playback" was invented by Antti Eronen (Tampere, Finland), Arto Lehtiniemi (Lempaala, Finland), Jussi Leppanen (Tampere, Finland) and Lasse Laaksonen (Tampere, Finland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus including circuitry configured to: obtain at least one location and/or orientation associated with a user; obtain, based on the at least one location and/or orientation, one or more audio element, wherein the one or more audio element at least partially forms an audio scene; obtain, based on the at least one location and/...