ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,707,225, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Spatial audio generation" was invented by Rashed Mohammed (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device includes memory configured to store audio data and one or more processors configured to obtain the audio data captured by a microphone of a wearable device. The instructions further cause the one or more processors to determine, based on one or more signals exchanged between the wearable device and a reference device, directionality information indicative of a direction of the microphone relative to the reference device. The instructions also cause the ...