ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,341, issued on July 29, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Channel-aligned audio coding" was invented by Frank Baumgarte (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A decoder-side method for outputting several audio channels of a sound program is described. An audio channel of the sound program, a residual signal, a gain parameter, and a delay parameter are received, for example within a bitstream. The audio channel is adjusted in accordance with the gain parameter and the delay parameter, to produce an adjusted audio signal, and is then combined with the residual signal to produce a combined signal. The audio cha...