US Patent Issued to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der angewandten Forschung e. V. on March 25 for "Lower layer reproduction" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,191, issued on March 25, was assigned to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der angewandten Forschung e. V. (Munich).

"Lower layer reproduction" was invented by Andreas Walther (Erlangen, Germany), Yannik Grewe (Erlangen, Germany) and Julian Klapp (Erlangen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An audio processor for reproducing multichannel audio has a normal layer processing and a lower layer processing. The normal layer processing is configured for processing one or more channels of the object-specific audio or the multichannel audio belonging to a normal layer. The lower layer processing is configured for processing at leas...