ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,619, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to DOLBY INTERNATIONAL AB (Dublin).

"Methods for parametric multi-channel encoding" was invented by Tobias Friedrich (Furth, Germany), Alexander Mueller (Nuremberg, Germany), Karsten Linzmeier (Nuremberg, Germany), Claus-Christian Spenger (Nuremberg, Germany) and Tobias R. Wagenblass (Nuremberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present document relates to audio coding systems. In particular, the present document relates to efficient methods and systems for parametric multi-channel audio coding. An audio encoding system configured to generate a bitstream indicative of a downmix signal and...