US Patent Issued to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung on Aug. 5 for "Audio encoder, audio decoder, methods and computer program using jointly encoded residual signals" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,899, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. (Munich).

"Audio encoder, audio decoder, methods and computer program using jointly encoded residual signals" was invented by Sascha Dick (Nuremberg, Germany), Christian Ertel (Eckental, Germany), Christian Helmrich (Erlangen, Germany), Johannes Hilpert (Nuremberg, Germany), Andreas Hoelzer (Erlangen, Germany) and Achim Kuntz (Hemhofen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An audio decoder for providing at least four audio channel signals on the basis of an encoded representation is configured to provide a first residual sign...