US Patent Issued to Dolby Laboratories Licensing, Dolby International on Feb. 10 for "Rendering audio over multiple speakers with multiple activation criteria" (American, Spanish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,902, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corp. (San Francisco) and Dolby International AB (Dublin).

"Rendering audio over multiple speakers with multiple activation criteria" was invented by Alan J. Seefeldt (Alameda, Calif.), Joshua B. Lando (Mill Valley, Calif.) and Daniel Arteaga (Barcelona, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for rendering audio for playback by two or more speakers are disclosed. The audio includes one or more audio signals, each with an associated intended perceived spatial position. Relative activation of the speakers may be a cost function of a model of perceived spatial po...