US Patent Issued to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES on Sept. 30 for "Selective modification of stereo or spatial audio" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,498, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Selective modification of stereo or spatial audio" was invented by Lasse Juhani Laaksonen (Tampere, Finland), Miikka Tapani Vilermo (Tampere, Finland) and Arto Juhani Lehtiniemi (Tampere, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus, method and computer program is described comprising: providing a stereo or spatial audio signal produced using individual signals from respective microphones of a user device, the stereo or spatial audio signal representing an audio scene; detecting unwanted noise in at least one of the individual signals; responsiv...