ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,613, issued on July 8, was assigned to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL) (Stockholm).

"Methods and apparatuses for DTX hangover in audio coding" was invented by Stefan Bruhn (Sollentuna, Sweden), Tomas Jansson Toftgard (Uppsala, Sweden) and Martin Sehlstedt (Lulea, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Transmitting node and receiving node for audio coding and methods therein. The nodes being operable to encode/decode speech and to apply a discontinuous transmission (DTX) scheme comprising transmission/reception of Silence Insertion Descriptor (SID) frames during speech inactivity. The method in the transmitting node comprising de...