ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,066, issued on May 27, was assigned to Sphere Entertainment Group LLC (New York).

"Method and system for spatial audio metering using extended reality devices" was invented by Yuan-Yi Fan (New York) and Neil Wakefield (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for providing an interactive visual representation of loudspeaker sound coverage in a venue. An embodiment enables temporal, spectral, and spatial audio metering from digital audio to venue acoustics. This technology can visualize audio capabilities of one or more loudspeaker arrays using light to provid...