US Patent Issued to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung on March 18 for "Device and method for manipulating an audio signal" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. RE50,341, issued on March 18, was assigned to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. (Munich).

"Device and method for manipulating an audio signal" was invented by Sascha Disch (Fuerth, Germany), Frederik Nagel (Nuremberg, Germany), Max Neuendorf (Nuremberg, Germany), Christian Helmrich (Erlangen, Germany) and Dominik Zorn (Nuremberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device and method for manipulating an audio signal includes a windower for generating a plurality of consecutive blocks of audio samples, the plurality of consecutive blocks including at least one padded block of audio samples, the padded...