ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,357, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe Ltd..

"Method and system for generating a personalised Head-Related Transfer Function" was invented by Calum Armstrong (London), Danjeli Schembri (London), Michael Lee Jones (London), Christopher George Buchanan (London) and Nima Karshenas (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An audio personalisation method for generating a personalised Head-Related Transfer Function, HRTF, the method comprising the steps of: obtaining a base HRTF model comprising a first set of parameters; outputting a sound from a virtual sound source according to the base HRTF model, t...