US Patent Issued to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung on Aug. 5 for "Encoder, decoder, encoding method and decoding method for frequency domain long-term prediction of tonal signals for audio coding" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,901, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. (Munich).

"Encoder, decoder, encoding method and decoding method for frequency domain long-term prediction of tonal signals for audio coding" was invented by Ning Guo (Erlangen, Germany) and Bernd Edler (Erlangen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An encoder for encoding a current frame of an audio signal depending on one or more previous frames of the audio signal is provided. The previous frames precede the current frame, each of the current frame and the one or more previous frames having one or more harmonic components...