US Patent Issued to Koninklijke Philips on June 30 for "Audio apparatus and method therefor" (Dutch Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,954, issued on June 30, was assigned to Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Audio apparatus and method therefor" was invented by Jeroen Gerardus Henricus Koppens (Nederweert, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first audio apparatus generates a data signal comprising data for an audio scene, the data comprising input audio source data for at least a first audio source and acoustic object data for at least one acoustic object in the audio scene, the acoustic object data comprising acoustic coupling data and spatial property data for the acoustic object. A second audio apparatus comprises a receiver (201) for r...