US Patent Issued to Apple on Oct. 20 for "Signaling for immersive audio rendering" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,769,502, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Signaling for immersive audio rendering" was invented by Dipanjan Sen (Dublin, Calif.) and Moo Young Kim (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system may utilize a signaling method to enable immersive audio rendering by a player. The system may package, in one or more bitstreams, audio content generated by a content creation tool for input to a type of audio renderer, selected from a plurality of types of audio renderers, a selected sub-type of the type of audio renderer, and a version of the selected sub-type of audio renderer. The one or more bitstreams ...