US Patent Issued to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der angewandten Forschung on Sept. 23 for "Apparatus, method, or computer program for processing an encoded audio scene using a bandwidth extension" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,793, issued on Sept. 23, 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 bandwidth extension" 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 comprising information on a tran...