US Patent Issued to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung on April 7 for "Apparatus and method for rendering a sound scene using pipeline stages" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,444, issued on April 7, was assigned to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. (Munich).

"Apparatus and method for rendering a sound scene using pipeline stages" was invented by Frank Wefers (Erlangen, Germany) and Simon Schwaer (Erlangen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus for rendering a sound scene, including: a first pipeline stage including a first control layer and a reconfigurable first audio data processor, wherein the reconfigurable first audio data processor is configured to operate in accordance with a first configuration of the reconfigurable first audio data processor; a secon...