US Patent Issued to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute on Nov. 18 for "Multi-sensor systems and methods for providing immersive virtual environments" (New York, California, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,293, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, N.Y.).

"Multi-sensor systems and methods for providing immersive virtual environments" was invented by Jonathan Mathews (Troy, N.Y.), Jonas Braasch (Latham, N.Y.), Richard J. Radke (Slingerlands, N.Y.), Gyanendra Sharma (Foster City, Calif.) and Devavrat Jivani (Woburn, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A time-of-flight (TOF) array including a plurality of cameras is positioned with a coplanar Higher Order Ambisonics (HOA) array including a plurality of microphones above a target area such as a room or space for analyzing speaker activity in that area....