ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,790, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Conditional disabling of a reverberator" was invented by Antti Johannes Eronen (Tampere, Finland) and Sujeet Shyamsundar Mate (Tampere, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for assisting spatial rendering in at least two acoustic environments, the apparatus including circuitry configured to: obtain information associated with at least a number of reverberators; determine, based on the information, a set of reverberators from the number of reverberators, the set of reverberators configured to be initialized; generate at least one configurat...