ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,148, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. (Munich).
"Encoding device, decoding device, encoding method, decoding method, and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium" was invented by Srikanth Nagisetty (Singapore), Zong Xian Liu (Singapore) and Hiroyuki Ehara (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An encoding device according to the disclosure includes a first encoder, which in operation, encodes a low-band signal from a voice or audio input signal to generate a first encoded signal; a decoder, which in operation, decodes the first encoded signal ...