ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,288, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to DOLBY LABORATORIES LICENSING Corp. (San Francisco) and DOLBY INTERNATIONAL AB (Dublin).

"System for maintaining reversible dynamic range control information associated with parametric audio coders" was invented by Jeffrey Riedmiller (Novato, Calif.), Karl J. Roeden (Solna, Sweden), Kristofer Kjoerling (Solna, Sweden), Heiko Purnhagen (Sundbyberg, Sweden), Vinay Melkote (Bangalore, India) and Leif Sehlstrom (Jarfalla, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "On the basis of a bitstream (P), an n-channel audio signal (X) is reconstructed by deriving an m-channel core signal (Y) and multichannel co...