US Patent Issued to Nokia Technologies on May 19 for "Processing of audio data" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,634,651, issued on May 19, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Processing of audio data" was invented by Jussi Artturi Leppanen (Tampere, Finland), Arto Juhani Lehtiniemi (Tampere, Finland), Lasse Juhani Laaksonen (Tampere, Finland) and Miikka Tapani Vilermo (Tampere, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus, method and computer program is disclosed. The apparatus may comprise means for providing audio data for output to a user device, the audio data representing a virtual space comprising a plurality of sounds located at respective spatial locations within the virtual space, the plurality of sounds being r...