US Patent Issued to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON on Nov. 18 for "Spatially-bounded audio elements with interior and exterior representations" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,296, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL) (Stockholm).

"Spatially-bounded audio elements with interior and exterior representations" was invented by Tommy Falk (Spanga, Sweden), Werner De Bruijn (Stockholm), Erlendur Karlsson (Uppsala, Sweden), Tomas Jansson Toftgard (Uppsala, Sweden) and Mengqiu Zhang (Stockholm).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of audio rendering. The method includes receiving an audio element, wherein the audio element comprises: i) an interior representation that is valid within a spatial region, the interior representation of the audio element being in a listener-centri...