US Patent Issued to Meta Platforms Technologies on May 5 for "HRTF determination using a headset and in-ear devices" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,629, issued on May 5, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"HRTF determination using a headset and in-ear devices" was invented by Andrew Francl (Redmond, Wash.), Tobias Daniel Kabzinski (Aachen, Germany), Hao Lu (Redmond, Wash.), Antje Ihlefeld (Redmond, Wash.) and William Owen Brimijoin II (Kirkland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for determining personalized head-related transfer functions (HRTFs) using a head-mounted device and in-ear devices include: receiving, from a sensor array of the head-mounted device, a first sound signal associated with a sound from a sound source in a loca...