US Patent Issued to FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG on Dec. 9 for "Apparatus and method for encoding a plurality of audio objects using direction information during a downmixing or apparatus and method for decoding using an optimized covariance synthesis" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,213, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V. (Munich).

"Apparatus and method for encoding a plurality of audio objects using direction information during a downmixing or apparatus and method for decoding using an optimized covariance synthesis" was invented by Andrea Eichenseer (Erlangen, Germany), Srikanth Korse (Erlangen, Germany), Stefan Bayer (Erlangen, Germany), Fabian Kuch (Erlangen, Germany), Oliver Thiergart (Erlangen, Germany), Guillaume Fuchs (Erlangen, Germany), Dominik Weckbecker (Erlangen, Germany), Jurgen Herre (Erlangen, Germany) and Markus Multrus (Erlangen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released...