US Patent Issued to ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE on Jan. 13 for "Apparatus for encoding and decoding audio signal and method of operation thereof" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,248, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Apparatus for encoding and decoding audio signal and method of operation thereof" was invented by Byeongho Cho (Daejeon, South Korea), Seung Kwon Beack (Daejeon, South Korea), Jongmo Sung (Daejeon, South Korea), Tae Jin Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Woo-Taek Lim (Daejeon, South Korea) and Inseon Jang (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are an apparatus for encoding an audio signal and a method of an operation thereof. An audio signal encoding method includes obtaining quantized linear predicti...