US Patent Issued to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der angewandten Forschung on Dec. 30 for "Audio encoder with a signal-dependent number and precision control, audio decoder, and related methods and computer programs" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,107, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. (Munich).

"Audio encoder with a signal-dependent number and precision control, audio decoder, and related methods and computer programs" was invented by Jan Buthe (Erlangen, Germany), Markus Schnell (Erlangen, Germany), Stefan Dohla (Erlangen, Germany), Bernhard Grill (Erlangen, Germany) and Martin Dietz (Erlangen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An audio encoder for encoding audio input data has: a preprocessor for preprocessing the audio input data to obtain audio data to be coded; a coder processor for coding the aud...