US Patent Issued to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung on Oct. 21 for "Apparatus and method for generating a bandwidth extended signal" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. RE50,650, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. (Munich).

"Apparatus and method for generating a bandwidth extended signal" was invented by Frederik Nagel (Nuremberg, Germany), Sascha Disch (Fuerth, Germany), Max Neuendorf (Nuremberg, Germany), Stefan Bayer (Nuremberg, Germany), Marc Gayer (Erlangen, Germany), Markus Lohwasser (Hersbruck, Germany), Nikolaus Rettelbach (Nuremberg, Germany) and Ulrich Kraemer (Stuttgart, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for generating a bandwidth extended signal from an input signal includes a patch generator and a combiner....