US Patent Issued to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung on June 10 for "Audio encoder, audio decoder, methods for encoding and decoding an audio signal, audio stream and a computer program" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,570, issued on June 10, was assigned to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. (Munich).

"Audio encoder, audio decoder, methods for encoding and decoding an audio signal, audio stream and a computer program" was invented by Nikolaus Rettelbach (Nuremberg, Germany), Bernhard Grill (Lauf, Germany), Guillaume Fuchs (Nuremberg, Germany), Stefan Geyersberger (Wuerzburg, Germany), Markus Multrus (Nuremberg, Germany), Harald Popp (Tuchenbach, Germany), Juergen Herre (Buckenhof, Germany), Stefan Wabnik (Ilmenau, Germany), Gerald Schuller (Ilmenau, Germany) and Jens Hirschfeld (Erfurt, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Tradem...