ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,921, issued on March 17, was assigned to Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Bitstream representing audio in an environment" was invented by Jeroen Gerardus Henricus Koppens (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An (encoding) apparatus comprises a metadata generator (203) generating metadata for audio data for a plurality of audio elements representing audio sources in an environment. The metadata comprises acoustic environment data for the environment where the acoustic environment data describes properties affecting sound propagation for the audio sources in the environment. At least some of the ac...