US Patent Issued to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung on Sept. 30 for "Apparatuses for encoding and decoding a sequence of integer values, methods for encoding and decoding a sequence of integer values and computer program for implementing these methods" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,916, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. (Munich).

"Apparatuses for encoding and decoding a sequence of integer values, methods for encoding and decoding a sequence of integer values and computer program for implementing these methods" was invented by Paul Haase (Berlin), Karsten Muller (Berlin), Heiner Kirchhoffer (Berlin), Detlev Marpe (Berlin), Heiko Schwarz (Berlin) and Thomas Wiegand (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An encoding scheme for encoding a sequence of integer values comprises encoding a value at a predetermined position and then consecutively ...