ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,576, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Reduction of spatial audio parameters" was invented by Tapani Pihlajakuja (Kellokoski, Finland), Mikko-Ville Laitinen (Espoo, Finland), Lasse Juhani Laaksonen (Tampere, Finland), Adriana Vasilache (Tampere, Finland) and Anssi Ramo (Tampere, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is inter alia disclosed an apparatus for spatial audio encoding comprising: means for analysing a plurality of spatial audio parameter sets associated with a frame of one or more audio signals, wherein the plurality of spatial audio parameter sets are associated with a plur...