ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,008, issued on July 22, was assigned to FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V. (Munich).

"Apparatus, method and computer program for encoding, decoding, scene processing and other procedures related to DirAC based spatial audio coding using low-order, mid-order and high-order components generators" was invented by Guillaume Fuchs (Erlangen, Germany), Oliver Thiergart (Erlangen, Germany), Srikanth Korse (Erlangen, Germany), Stefan Dohla (Erlangen, Germany), Markus Multrus (Erlangen, Germany), Fabian Kuch (Erlangen, Germany), Alexandre Boutheon (Erlangen, Germany), Andrea Eichenseer (Erlangen, Germany) and Stefan Bayer (Erlangen, Germany).

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