US Patent Issued to Dolby International on May 6 for "Audio decoder for interleaving signals" (Swedish, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,293,768, issued on May 6, was assigned to Dolby International AB (Dublin).

"Audio decoder for interleaving signals" was invented by Kristofer Kjorling (Solna, Sweden), Heiko Purnhagen (Sundbyberg, Sweden), Harald Mundt (Furth, Germany), Karl Jonas Roeden (Solna, Sweden) and Leif Sehlstrom (Jarfalla, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for decoding an encoded audio bitstream in an audio processing system is disclosed. The method includes extracting from the encoded audio bitstream a first waveform-coded signal comprising spectral coefficients corresponding to frequencies up to a first cross-over frequency for a time frame and p...