US Patent Issued to Dolby International on Dec. 30 for "Methods and apparatus for unified speech and audio decoding improvements" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,106, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Dolby International AB (Dublin).

"Methods and apparatus for unified speech and audio decoding improvements" was invented by Michael Franz Beer (Nuremberg, Germany), Eytan Rubin (Nurmberg, Germany), Daniel Fischer (Fuerth, Germany), Christof Fersch (Neumarkt, Germany) and Markus Werner (Karlsruhe, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are methods, apparatus and computer products for decoding an encoded MPEG-D USAC bitstream. Described herein are such methods, apparatus and computer products that reduce a computational complexity."

The patent was filed on May 18, 2021, under Ap...