US Patent Issued to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der angewandten Forschung on Oct. 7 for "Apparatus, method, or computer program for processing an encoded audio scene using a parameter smoothing" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,768, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. (Munich).

"Apparatus, method, or computer program for processing an encoded audio scene using a parameter smoothing" was invented by Franz Reutelhuber (Erlangen, Germany), Guillaume Fuchs (Erlangen, Germany), Markus Multrus (Erlangen, Germany), Eleni Fotopoulou (Erlangen, Germany), Stefan Bayer (Erlangen, Germany), Jan Buthe (Erlangen, Germany) and Stefan Dohla (Erlangen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus for processing an audio scene representing a sound field, the audio scene having information on a transport si...