US Patent Issued to Dolby Laboratories Licensing on July 14 for "Rendering based on loudspeaker orientation" (American, Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,309, issued on July 14, was assigned to Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corp. (San Francisco).

"Rendering based on loudspeaker orientation" was invented by Kimberly Jean Kawczinski (San Francisco), Alan Jeffrey Seefeldt (Alameda, Calif.) and Timothy Alan Port (Drummoyne, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An audio processing method may involve receiving audio signals and associated spatial data, listener position data, loudspeaker position data and loudspeaker orientation data, and rendering the audio data for reproduction, based, at least in part, on the spatial data, the listener position data, the loudspeaker position data and ...