US Patent Issued to Nokia Technologies on Sept. 1 for "Apparatus, methods and computer programs for enabling rendering of spatial audio" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,779, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Apparatus, methods and computer programs for enabling rendering of spatial audio" was invented by Mikko-Ville Laitinen (Espoo, Finland) and Juha Tapio Vilkamo (Helsinki).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples of the disclosure enable spatial audio rendering in a different format to the format that is used for the spatial audio coding. In examples of the disclosure spatial audio and first spatial metadata in a first format are obtained. The first spatial metadata enables rendering of spatial audio in a first audio format. In order to enable rendering of t...