ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,957, issued on July 15, was assigned to ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Daejeon, South Korea) and KWANGWOON UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COLLABORATION FOUNDATION (Seoul, South Korea).

"Unified speech/audio codec (USAC) processing windows sequence based mode switching" was invented by Seungkwon Beack (Daejeong, South Korea), Tae Jin Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Min Je Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Kyeongok Kang (Daejeon, South Korea), Dae Young Jang (Daejeon, South Korea), Jeongil Seo (Daejeon, South Korea), Jin Woo Hong (Daejeon, South Korea), Chieteuk Ahn (Daejeon, South Korea), Ho Chong Park (Daejeon, South Korea) and Young-cheol Park (Seoul, South Korea).

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