US Patent Issued to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung on June 30 for "Arithmetic encoders, arithmetic decoders, video encoder, video decoder, methods for encoding, methods for decoding and computer program" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,440, issued on June 30, was assigned to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. (Munich).

"Arithmetic encoders, arithmetic decoders, video encoder, video decoder, methods for encoding, methods for decoding and computer program" was invented by Heiner Kirchhoffer (Berlin), Jan Stegemann (Staufen, Germany), Detlev Marpe (Berlin), Paul Haase (Berlin), Stefan Matlage (Berlin), Christian Bartnik (Berlin), Heiko Schwarz (Berlin) and Thomas Wiegand (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An arithmetic encoder for encoding a plurality of symbols having symbol values to derive an interval size information for an a...