US Patent Issued to Nokia Technologies on March 24 for "Parametric spatial audio rendering with near-field effect" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,781, issued on March 24, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Parametric spatial audio rendering with near-field effect" was invented by Mikko-Ville Laitinen (Espoo, Finland), Mikko Tammi (Tampere, Finland) and Juha Vilkamo (Helsinki).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus including circuitry configured to: obtain two or more audio signals, wherein each audio signal is associated with a microphone array; obtain at least one value associated with an inter-channel difference based on the two or more audio signals; obtain at least one parameter value associated with the two or more audio signals; obtain at least...