US Patent Issued to Dolby International on May 27 for "Methods, apparatus and systems for generation, transportation and processing of immediate playout frames (IPFs)" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,524, issued on May 27, was assigned to Dolby International AB (Grand Canal Docklands, Ireland).

"Methods, apparatus and systems for generation, transportation and processing of immediate playout frames (IPFs)" was invented by Christof Joseph Fersch (Neumarkt, Germany) and Daniel Fischer (Fuerth, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein is an audio decoder for decoding a bitstream of encoded audio data, wherein the bitstream of encoded audio data represents a sequence of audio sample values and comprises a plurality of frames, wherein each frame comprises associated encoded audio sample values, the audio decoder compris...