ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,575, issued on May 20, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).
"Multi-viewpoint multi-user audio user experience" was invented by Lasse Laaksonen (Tampere, Finland), Sujeet Shyamsundar Mate (Tampere, Finland) and Kari Jarvinen (Tampere, Finland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus configured to: receive a spatial media file comprising a plurality of viewpoints; determine a viewpoint from the plurality of viewpoints for a user consuming the spatial media file; receive an audio stream associated with the viewpoint; receive an augmentation audio stream, wherein the augmentation audio stream is at least partially d...