US Patent Issued to Nokia Technologies on Jan. 20 for "Apparatus, methods and computer programs for processing audio signals" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,144, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Apparatus, methods and computer programs for processing audio signals" was invented by Juha Tapio Vilkamo (Helsinki), Mikko-Ville Laitinen (Espoo, Finland) and Jussi Kalevi Virolainen (Espoo, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples of the disclosure relate to apparatus, methods and computer programs for processing spatial audio. In examples, an apparatus can be configured to receive information indicative of a first orientation and/or location of a listener and also to obtain input audio signals. The apparatus can be configured to process the inp...