ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,941, issued on April 15, was assigned to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. (Munich).
"Parameter encoding and decoding" was invented by Alexandre Boutheon (Erlangen, Germany), Guillaume Fuchs (Erlangen, Germany), Markus Multrus (Erlangen, Germany), Fabian Kuch (Erlangen, Germany), Oliver Thiergart (Erlangen, Germany), Stefan Bayer (Erlangen, Germany), Sascha Disch (Erlangen, Germany) and Jurgen Herre (Erlangen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There are disclosed several examples of encoding and decoding technique. In particular, an audio synthesizer for generating a synthesis signal from a down...