US Patent Issued to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung on Nov. 4 for "Decoder and decoding method selecting an error concealment mode, and encoder and encoding method" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,822, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. (Munich).

"Decoder and decoding method selecting an error concealment mode, and encoder and encoding method" was invented by Adrian Tomasek (Erlangen, Germany), Ralph Sperschneider (Erlangen, Germany), Jan Buethe (Erlangen, Germany), Conrad Benndorf (Erlangen, Germany), Martin Dietz (Erlangen, Germany), Markus Schnell (Erlangen, Germany) and Maximilian Schlegel (Erlangen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A decoder for decoding a frame to reconstruct a signal portion of a signal is provided. The signal portion is encoded w...