ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,454, issued on July 22, was assigned to Rohde & Schwarz GmbH & Co. KG (Munich).
"Compression device, decompression device, and method for compressing and/or decompressing signals" was invented by Thomas Winkler (Berlin).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A compression device for compressing a signal is provided. Said compression device comprises an input for inputting the signal, a processor for performing source separation and/or time frame separation to find recognizable signal components with respect to the signal and/or for determining major characteristics of the signal and/or components of the signal as at least one signal parameter...