US Patent Issued to Dolby International on Feb. 11 for "Selectable linear predictive or transform coding modes with advanced stereo coding" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,223,966, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to Dolby International AB (Dublin).

"Selectable linear predictive or transform coding modes with advanced stereo coding" was invented by Heiko Purnhagen (Sundbyberg, Sweden), Pontus Carlsson (Bromma, Sweden) and Kristofer Kjoerling (Solna, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for advanced stereo processing of an audio signal are disclosed. The methods and systems include selecting a coding mode of either transform coding or linear predictive coding and performing advanced stereo processing when in the selected coding mode. Both encoding and decoding operations are provided." ...