US Patent Issued to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung on Feb. 18 for "Decoder for decoding an encoded audio signal and encoder for encoding an audio signal" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,230,286, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. (Munich).

"Decoder for decoding an encoded audio signal and encoder for encoding an audio signal" was invented by Christian Helmrich (Berlin) and Bernd Edler (Fuerth, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A schematic block diagram of a decoder for decoding an encoded audio signal is shown. The decoder includes an adaptive spectrum-time converter and an overlap-add-processor. The adaptive spectrum-time converter converts successive blocks of spectral values into successive blocks of time values, e.g. via a frequency-to-time t...