ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,923, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA (Torrance, Calif.).

"Acoustic feature estimation method, acoustic feature estimation system, recording medium, and rendering method" was invented by Mariko Yamada (Hyogo, Japan) and Tomokazu Ishikawa (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An acoustic feature estimation method is an acoustic feature estimation method for estimating an acoustic feature of a space and includes acquiring data on the space, estimating situations in the space in accordance with the acquired data, correcting a provisional value of the acoustic feature in ac...