ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,594, issued on March 24, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Guiding ambisonic audio compression by deconvolving long window frequency analysis" was invented by Martin Bruse (Tyreso, Sweden), Jyrki Antero Alakuijala (Wollerau, Switzerland), Moritz Firsching (Basel, Switzerland), Thomas Fischbacher (Gattikon, Switzerland), Sami Boukortt (Zurich) and Evgenii Kliuchnikov (Thalwil, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method including receiving an audio signal, generating a transformed audio signal by transforming the audio signal using a plurality of windows each separated in time, generating an interpolated au...