US Patent Issued to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung on Nov. 4 for "Apparatus and method for encoding or decoding a multi-channel signal" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,819, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. (Munich).

"Apparatus and method for encoding or decoding a multi-channel signal" was invented by Sascha Dick (Nuremberg, Germany), Florian Schuh (Zirndorf, Germany), Nikolaus Rettelbach (Nuremberg, Germany), Tobias Schwegler (Nuremberg, Germany), Richard Fueg (Nuremberg, Germany), Johannes Hilpert (Nuremberg, Germany) and Matthias Neusinger (Rohr, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for encoding a multi-channel signal having at least three channels includes an iteration processor, a channel encoder and an output...