ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,755,744, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Signaling for rendering tools" was invented by Moo Young Kim (San Diego), Nils Gunther Peters (Erlangen, Germany), Dipanjan Sen (Dublin, Calif.), Siddhartha Goutham Swaminathan (San Diego), S M Akramus Salehin (San Diego) and Jason Filos (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example audio decoding device includes a memory configured to store at least a portion of a coded audio bitstream; and one or more processors configured to: decode, based on the coded audio bitstream, a representation of a soundfield; decode, based on the coded audio bitstream, a syntax elem...