ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,101, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corp. (San Francisco) and DOLBY INTERNATIONAL AB (Dublin).

"Rotation of sound components for orientation-dependent coding schemes" was invented by Stefan Bruhn (Sollentuna, Sweden), Harald Mundt (Furth, Germany), David S. Mcgrath (Rose Bay, Australia) and Stefanie Brown (Lewisham, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method for encoding scene-based audio is provided. In some implementations, the method involves determining, by an encoder, a spatial direction of a dominant sound component in a frame of an input audio signal. In some implementations, the method in...