ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,243,540, issued on March 4, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).
"Merging of spatial audio parameters" was invented by Mikko-Ville Laitinen (Espoo, Finland), Lasse Laaksonen (Tampere, Finland), Adriana Vasilache (Tampere, Finland), Tapani Pihlajakuja (Kellokoski, Finland) and Anssi Ramo (Tampere, Finland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is inter alia disclosed an apparatus for spatial audio encoding comprising: means for determining at least two of a type of spatial audio parameter for one or more audio signals, wherein a first of the type of spatial audio parameter is associated with a first group of samples in a ...