ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,325, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to ORANGE (Issy-les-Moulineaux, France).

"Spatialized audio encoding with configuration of a decorrelation processing operation" was invented by Stephane Ragot (Chatillon, France) and Arnaud Lefort (Chatillon, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for encoding audio signals forming in time a succession of frames of samples, in each of n channels of an ambisonic representation of order higher than 0. The method includes: determining, for the current frame to be encoded, the binary value indicating an active or inactive mode of a decorrelation processing operation to be applied to the signa...