ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,380, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V. (Munich).
"Apparatus, method and computer program for synthesizing a spatially extended sound source using elementary spatial sectors" was invented by Yun-Han Wu (Erlangen, Germany), Jurgen Herre (Erlangen, Germany), Mikhail Korotiaev (Erlangen, Germany), Matthias Geier (Erlangen, Germany), Simon Schwar (Erlangen, Germany), Alexander Adami (Erlangen, Germany) and Carlotta Anemuller (Erlangen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for synthesizing a spatially extended sound source (SESS), has: a storage for storing ...