US Patent Issued to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung on March 24 for "Apparatus, method and computer program for encoding an audio signal or for decoding an encoded audio scene" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,595, issued on March 24, was assigned to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. (Munich).

"Apparatus, method and computer program for encoding an audio signal or for decoding an encoded audio scene" was invented by Guillaume Fuchs (Erlangen, Germany), Archit Tamarapu (Erlangen, Germany), Andrea Eichenseer (Erlangen, Germany), Srikanth Korse (Erlangen, Germany), Stefan Doehla (Erlangen, Germany) and Markus Multrus (Erlangen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There are disclosed an apparatus for generating an encoded audio scene, and an apparatus for decoding and/or processing an encoded audio scene...