ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,005, issued on July 22, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Apparatus and method for processing multi-channel audio signal" was invented by Yoonjae Son (Suwon-si, South Korea), Sangchul Ko (Suwon-si, South Korea), Woohyun Nam (Suwon-si, South Korea), Kyungrae Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jungkyu Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Tammy Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Hyunkwon Chung (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Sunghee Hwang (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for processing audio includes at least one processor configured to obtain a down-mixed audio signal from a bitstream, to ...