US Patent Issued to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung on Feb. 17 for "Apparatus and method for encoding an audio signal using an output interface for outputting a parameter calculated from a compensation value" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,587, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. (Munich).

"Apparatus and method for encoding an audio signal using an output interface for outputting a parameter calculated from a compensation value" was invented by Sascha Disch (Fuerth, Germany), Franz Reutelhuber (Erlangen, Germany), Jan Buthe (Erlangen, Germany), Markus Multrus (Nuremberg, Germany) and Bernd Edler (Fuerth, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for encoding an audio signal includes: a core encoder for core encoding first audio data in a first spectral band; a parametric coder for parametric...