US Patent Issued to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung on Aug. 26 for "Data processor and transport of user control data to audio decoders and renderers" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,862, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. (Munich).

"Data processor and transport of user control data to audio decoders and renderers" was invented by Stephan Schreiner (Birgland, Germany), Simone Neukam (Kalchreuth, Germany), Harald Fuchs (Roettenbach, Germany), Jan Plogsties (Fuerth, Germany) and Stefan Doehla (Erlangen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Audio data processor, having: a receiver interface for receiving encoded audio data and metadata related to the encoded audio data; a metadata parser for parsing the metadata to determine an audio data manipu...