ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,473, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to DOLBY INTERNTIONAL AB (Dublin).
"Audio encoder and decoder for interleaved waveform coding" was invented by Kristofer Kjoerling (Solna, Sweden), Robin Thesing (Nuremberg, Germany), Harald Mundt (Sundbyberg, Sweden), Heiko Jonas Purnhagen (Sundbyberg, Sweden) and Karl Jonas Roeden (Solna, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided methods and apparatuses for decoding and encoding of audio signals. In particular, a method for decoding includes receiving a waveform-coded signal having a spectral content corresponding to a subset of the frequency range above a cross-over frequency. The...