ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,293,130, issued on May 6, was assigned to T-MOBILE INNOVATIONS LLC (Overland Park, Kan.).
"Sound propagation in virtual reality" was invented by Robert Keith Butler (Overland Park, Kan.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology described herein controls what a user hears while in a virtual reality environment. A user may be exposed to multiple audio sources while in the virtual reality environment. All of these competing audio sources need to be combined to produce the audio content output to the user. Further, various entities have an interest in the user hearing different audio content. The interest can be expressed through setting...