US Patent Issued to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung on April 7 for "Multi-channel signal generator, audio encoder and related methods relying on a mixing noise signal" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,430, issued on April 7, was assigned to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. (Munich).

"Multi-channel signal generator, audio encoder and related methods relying on a mixing noise signal" was invented by Emmanuel Ravelli (Erlangen, Germany), Jan Frederik Kiene (Erlangen, Germany), Guillaume Fuchs (Erlangen, Germany), Srikanth Korse (Erlangen, Germany), Markus Multrus (Erlangen, Germany) and Eleni Fotopoulou (Erlangen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A signal generator for generating a multichannel signal, having: first and a second audio sources, generating first and second audio signals, respe...