US Patent Issued to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der angewandten Forschung on Nov. 18 for "Audio quantizer and audio dequantizer and related methods" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,900, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. (Munich).

"Audio quantizer and audio dequantizer and related methods" was invented by Emmanuel Ravelli (Erlangen, Germany), Goran Markovic (Erlangen, Germany), Jan Frederik Kiene (Erlangen, Germany), Franz Reutelhuber (Erlangen, Germany), Stefan Dohla (Erlangen, Germany) and Eleni Fotopoulou (Erlangen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An audio quantizer for quantizing a plurality of audio information items has: a first stage vector quantizer for quantizing the plurality of audio information items to determine a first sta...