US Patent Issued to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung on Dec. 9 for "Audio splicing concept" (German, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,170, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. (Munich).

"Audio splicing concept" was invented by Herbert Thoma (Erlangen, Germany), Robert Bleidt (Santa Clara, Calif.), Stefan Kraegeloh (Erlangen, Germany), Max Neuendorf (Erlangen, Germany), Achim Kuntz (Erlangen, Germany), Andreas Niedermeier (Erlangen, Germany) and Michael Kratschmer (Erlangen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Audio splicing is rendered more effective by the use of one or more truncation unit packets inserted into the audio data stream so as to indicate to an audio decoder, for a predetermined acce...