ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,707,228, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to DOLBY LABORATORIES LICENSING Corp. (San Francisco).

"Generating binaural audio in response to multi-channel audio using at least one feedback delay network" was invented by Kuan-Chieh Yen (Foster City, Calif.), Dirk Jeroen Breebaart (Ultimo, Australia), Grant A. Davidson (Burlingame, Calif.), Rhonda Wilson (San Francisco), David M. Cooper (Carlton, Australia) and Zhiwei Shuang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, virtualization methods for generating a binaural signal in response to channels of a multi-channel audio signal, which apply a binaural room impulse response (B...