US Patent Issued to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung on Sept. 9 for "Method for decoding and encoding a downmix matrix, method for presenting audio content, encoder and decoder for a downmix matrix, audio encoder and audio decoder" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,586, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. (Germany).

"Method for decoding and encoding a downmix matrix, method for presenting audio content, encoder and decoder for a downmix matrix, audio encoder and audio decoder" was invented by Florin Ghido (Nuremberg, Germany), Achim Kuntz (Hemhofen, Germany) and Bernhard Grill (Lauf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is described which decodes a downmix matrix for mapping a plurality of input channels of audio content to a plurality of output channels, the input and output channels being associated with respecti...