ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,407,999, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Adjustment of reverberator based on source directivity" was invented by Antti Johannes Eronen (Tampere, Finland), Sujeet Shyamsundar Mate (Tampere, Finland), Pasi Liimatainen (Lempaala, Finland), Archontis Politis (Tampere, Finland), Jaakko Valdemar Hyry (Oulu, Finland) and Mikko-Ville Laitinen (Espoo, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for assisting spatial rendering for room acoustics, the apparatus including means configured to: obtain directivity data having an identifier, wherein the directivity data includes data for at least two s...