US Patent Issued to DOLBY INTERNATIONAL on March 25 for "Decoding audio bitstreams with enhanced spectral band replication metadata in at least one fill element" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,869, issued on March 25, was assigned to DOLBY INTERNATIONAL AB (Dublin).

"Decoding audio bitstreams with enhanced spectral band replication metadata in at least one fill element" was invented by Lars Villemoes (Jarfalla, Sweden), Heiko Purnhagen (Sundbyberg, Sweden) and Per Ekstrand (Saltsjobaden, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments relate to an audio processing unit that includes a buffer, bitstream payload deformatter, and a decoding subsystem. The buffer stores at least one block of an encoded audio bitstream. The block includes a fill element that begins with an identifier followed by fill data. The fill data incl...