ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,758, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corp. (San Francisco) and DOLBY INTERNATIONAL AB (Dublin).

"Methods and devices for generating or decoding a bitstream comprising immersive audio signals" was invented by Stefan Bruhn (Sollentuna, Sweden) and Juan Felix Torres (Redfern, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present document describes a method for generating a bitstream, wherein the bitstream comprises a sequence of superframes for a sequence of frames of an immersive audio signal. The method comprises, repeatedly for the sequence of superframes, inserting coded audio data for one or more frames...