ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,630, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Efficient coding of transients in transform-domain" was invented by Venkatraman Atti (Cupertino, Calif.) and Dipanjan Sen (Dublin, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure provide improved techniques for coding audio signal with a transient audio sound. Improved techniques include parsing a frame of predetermined length of audio samples into a series of windows of a smaller size, and transforming the windows of time-domain samples into a series of windows of frequency-domain samples. The frequency-domain samples may be organized ac...