US Patent Issued to Infineon Technologies on July 22 for "Efficient filtering architecture with reduced group delay for decompression using predictor" (Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,448, issued on July 22, was assigned to Infineon Technologies AG (Neubiberg, Germany).

"Efficient filtering architecture with reduced group delay for decompression using predictor" was invented by Dietmar Straeussnigg (Villach, Austria) and Simon Grunberger (Moosburg, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A digital microphone includes a log amplifier having an input for receiving an analog signal; an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) coupled to the log amplifier; a digital low-pass filter coupled to the ADC; a digital decompression component coupled to the digital low-pass filter; and a predictor filter coupled to the digital decomp...