ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,755,742, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to DOLBY LABORATORIES LICENSING Corp..

"Audio content generation and classification" was invented by Brenton James Potter (New South Wales, Australia) and Hadis Nosrati (New South Wales, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some disclosed methods involve receiving audio data of at least a first audio data type and a second audio data type, including audio signals and associated spatial data indicating intended perceived spatial positions for the audio signals, determining at least a first feature type from the audio data and applying a positional encoding process to the audio data, to produce en...