ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,518, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL) (Stockholm).

"Efficient spatially-heterogeneous audio elements for virtual reality" 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: "In one aspect, there is a method for rendering a spatially-heterogeneous audio element. In some embodiments, the method includes obtaining two or more audio signals representing the spatially-heterogeneous audio element, wherein a combination of the audio signals...