US Patent Issued to SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT on Sept. 29 for "Systems and methods for identifying a location of a sound source" (California, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,471, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC. (Tokyo).

"Systems and methods for identifying a location of a sound source" was invented by Victoria Dorn (San Mateo, Calif.), Andres Aceves (Harvey, Ill.) and David Henshaw (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for identifying a location of a sound source is described. The method includes determining whether a predetermined condition regarding the sound source in a game is achieved during a play of the game and modifying first audio data generated based on a first sound received from a player in response to determining that the predete...