US Patent Issued to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung on July 8 for "Audio decoder, method and computer program using a zero-input-response to obtain a smooth transition" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,615, issued on July 8, was assigned to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung E.V. (Munich).

"Audio decoder, method and computer program using a zero-input-response to obtain a smooth transition" was invented by Emmanuel Ravelli (Erlangen, Germany), Guillaume Fuchs (Bubenreuth, Germany), Sascha Disch (Fuerth, Germany), Markus Multrus (Nuremberg, Germany), Grzegorz Pietrzyk (Nuremberg, Germany) and Benjamin Schubert (Nuremberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An audio decoder for providing a decoded audio information on the basis of an encoded audio information includes a linear-prediction-domain decode...