ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,804, issued on March 24, was assigned to Nvidia Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Location-aware neural audio processing in content generation systems and applications" was invented by Ante Jukic (Culver City, Calif.), Jagadeesh Balam (Campbell, Calif.) and Boris Ginsburg (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Approaches presented herein provide for identification of sound from a sound source relative to an array of microphones of a potentially unknown configuration using, in part, differences in the audio signals received by the microphones. In at least one embodiment, audio signals are captured using an array of microphones...