US Patent Issued to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung on July 29 for "Multi-channel audio decoder, multi-channel audio encoder, methods, computer program and encoded audio representation using a decorrelation of rendered audio signals" (German, Romanian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,342, issued on July 29, was assigned to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. (Munich).

"Multi-channel audio decoder, multi-channel audio encoder, methods, computer program and encoded audio representation using a decorrelation of rendered audio signals" was invented by Sascha Disch (Fuerth, Germany), Harald Fuchs (Roettenbach, Germany), Oliver Hellmuth (Budenhof, Germany), Juergen Herre (Erlangen, Germany), Adrian Murtaza (Craiova, Romania), Jouni Paulus (Nuremberg, Germany), Falko Ridderbusch V (Augsburg, Germany) and Leon Terentiv (Erlangen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-channel aud...