US Patent Issued to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung on Dec. 9 for "Concept for combining multiple parametrically coded audio sources" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. RE50,697, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. (Munich).

"Concept for combining multiple parametrically coded audio sources" was invented by Johannes Hilpert (Nuremberg, Germany), Juergen Herre (Buckenhof, Germany), Karsten Linzmeier (Erlangen, Germany), Oliver Hellmuth (Erlangen, Germany) and Thorsten Kastner (Stoackheim/Reitsch, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to the present invention, multiple parametrically encoded audio signals can be efficiently combined using an audio signal generator, which generates an audio output signal by combining the down-mix ch...