US Patent Issued to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung on Sept. 8 for "Apparatus and method for rendering audio objects" (Swiss, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,771, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. (Munich).

"Apparatus and method for rendering audio objects" was invented by Andreas Walther (Erlangen, Germany), Christof Faller (Greifensee, Switzerland), Jurgen Herre (Erlangen, Germany), Markus Schmidt (Lausanne, Switzerland), Christian Borss (Erlangen, Germany), Julian Klapp (Erlangen, Germany) and Philipp Gotz (Erlangen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A more efficient rendering of audio objects, which allows 3D panning, is achieved by performing the panning into two stages, namely at least one horizontal in-laye...