US Patent Issued to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung on Dec. 23 for "Encoding an information signal" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. RE50,711, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. (Munich).

"Encoding an information signal" was invented by Markus Schnell (Erlangen, Germany), Michael Schuldt (Germering, Germany), Manfred Lutzky (Nuremberg, Germany) and Manuel Jander (Erlangen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The transient problem may be sufficiently addressed, and for this purpose, a further delay on the side of the decoding may be reduced if a new SBR frame class is used wherein the frame boundaries are not shifted, i.e. the grid boundaries are still synchronized with the frame boundaries, but wher...