ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,210, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to VOICEAGE Corp. (Town of Mount Royal, Canada).
"Method and device for classification of uncorrelated stereo content, cross-talk detection, and stereo mode selection in a sound codec" was invented by Vladimir Malenovsky (Brno, Czech Republic) and Tommy Vaillancourt (Sherbrooke, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and device selecting one of a first stereo mode and a second stereo mode for coding a stereo sound signal including a left channel and a right channel, comprises producing a first output indicative of a presence or absence of uncorrelated stereo content in the stereo sound signa...