US Patent Issued to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung on Aug. 12 for "Apparatus and method for stereo filling in multichannel coding" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,731, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. (Munich).

"Apparatus and method for stereo filling in multichannel coding" was invented by Sascha Dick (Nuremberg, Germany), Christian Helmrich (Berlin), Nikolaus Rettelbach (Nuremberg, Germany), Florian Schuh (Zirndorf, Germany), Richard Fueg (Nuremberg, Germany) and Frederik Nagel (Heroldsberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for decoding an encoded multichannel signal of a current frame to obtain three or more current audio output channels is provided. A multichannel processor is adapted to select two d...