MUMBAI, India, Nov. 14 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202515094749 A) filed by Apple Inc., Cupertino, U.S.A., on Oct. 1, for 'spatial audio controller.'

Inventor(s) include Ramprashad, Sean A.; Callaway, Peter D.; Chang, Jae Woo; Johnson, Martin E.; Boothe, Daniel K.; Komarov, Kostyantyn; Miauton, Patrick; Garrido, Christopher M.; Shyu, Austin W.; and Santhanam, Karthick.

The application for the patent was published on Nov. 14, under issue no. 46/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "A method performed a local device that is communicatively coupled with 5 several remote devices, the method includes: receiving, from each remote device with which the local device is engaged in a communication session, an input audio stream; receiving, for each remote device, a set parameters; determining, for each input audio stream, whether the input audio stream is to be 1) rendered individually or 2) rendered as a mix of input audio streams based on the set of parameters; for each input audio 10 stream that is determined to be rendered individually, spatial rendering the input audio stream as an individual virtual sound source that contains only that input audio stream; and for input audio streams that are determined to be rendered as the mix of input audio streams, spatial rendering the mix of input audio streams as a single virtual sound source that contains the mix of input audio streams."

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