ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,249,325, issued on March 11, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).
"Decimator for audio signals" was invented by Mikko Olavi Heikkinen (Tampere, Finland), Miikka Tapani Vilermo (Siuro, Finland), Antti Johannes Eronen (Tampere, Finland) and Arto Juhani Lehtiniemi (Lempaala, Finland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples of the disclosure relate to an apparatus that provides a decimator for audio signals. The apparatus comprises means for: receiving one or more audio input signals and applying a multi-stage decimation process to the one or more audio input signals wherein the multi-stage decimation process comprises at ...