ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,139, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to XROUND INC. (New Taipei, Taiwan).

"Audio signal processing method and audio signal processing apparatus" was invented by Peng Lee (New Taipei, Taiwan) and Li-Hao Yang (New Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An audio signal processing method is provided. The method separates a left and a right channel audio signal to a center-left and center-right channel audio signals, and a side-left and side-right channel audio signals, and processes the center and side channel audio signals by a Head Related Transfer Function (HRTF) so as to simulate the audio signals into several audio source pos...