US Patent Issued to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der angewandten Forschung on Jan. 27 for "Audio scene encoder, audio scene decoder and related methods using hybrid encoder-decoder spatial analysis" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,011, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. (Germany).

"Audio scene encoder, audio scene decoder and related methods using hybrid encoder-decoder spatial analysis" was invented by Guillaume Fuchs (Erlangen, Germany), Stefan Bayer (Erlangen, Germany), Markus Multrus (Erlangen, Germany), Oliver Thiergart (Erlangen, Germany), Alexandre Boutheon (Erlangen, Germany), Jurgen Herre (Erlangen, Germany), Florin Ghido (Erlangen, Germany), Wolfgang Jaegers (Forchheim, Germany) and Fabian Kuch (Erlangen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An audio scene encoder for encoding an ...