US Patent Issued to FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG on Sept. 16 for "Apparatus, method and computer program for encoding, decoding, scene processing and other procedures related to DirAC based spatial audio coding using diffuse compensation" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,768, issued on Sept. 16, 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 diffuse compensation" 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).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S....