US Patent Issued to Meta Platforms Technologies on Sept. 15 for "Spatial audio and avatar control at headset using audio signals" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,954, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Spatial audio and avatar control at headset using audio signals" was invented by Nadav Grossinger (Hillsborough, Calif.) and Robert Hasbun (Placerville, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An audio system in a local area providing an audio signal to a headset of a remote user is presented herein. The audio system identifies sounds from a human sound source in the local area, based in part on sounds detected within the local area. The audio system generates an audio signal for presentation to a remote user within a virtual representation...