US Patent Issued to Nokia Technologies on March 25 for "Determination of spatial audio parameter encoding and associated decoding" (Finnish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,868, issued on March 25, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Determination of spatial audio parameter encoding and associated decoding" was invented by Adriana Vasilache (Tampere, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for receiving an indicator configured to identify whether encoded spatial audio signal directional metadata parameters for time-frequency tiles of an audio frame were encoded based on a quantization resolution which is equal to or less than a determined number of bits; decode the encoded spatial audio signal directional metadata parameters for the time-frequency tiles of the audio fra...