US Patent Issued to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES on Oct. 27 for "Parametric spatial audio rendering" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,324, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Parametric spatial audio rendering" was invented by Mikko-Ville Laitinen (Espoo, Finland), Tapani Pihlajakuja (Kellokoski, Finland), Juha Tapio Vilkamo (Helsinki), Adriana Vasilache (Tampere, Finland) and Lasse Juhani Laaksonen (Tampere, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus comprising means for: obtaining a bitstream comprising encoded spatial metadata and encoded transport audio signals; decoding transport audio signals from the bitstream encoded transport audio signals; decoding spatial metadata from the bitstream encoded spatial metadat...