US Patent Issued to Dolby Laboratories Licensing, DOLBY INTERNATIONAL on July 21 for "System and method for non-destructively normalizing loudness of audio signals within portable devices" (German, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,861, issued on July 21, was assigned to Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corp. (San Francisco) and DOLBY INTERNATIONAL AB (Dublin).

"System and method for non-destructively normalizing loudness of audio signals within portable devices" was invented by Jeffrey Riedmiller (Novato, Calif.), Harald Mundt (Furth, Germany), Michael Schug (Erlangen, Germany) and Martin Wolters (Nuremberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Many portable playback devices cannot decode and playback encoded audio content having wide bandwidth and wide dynamic range with consistent loudness and intelligibility unless the encoded audio content has been prepared ...