US Patent Issued to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung on Nov. 11 for "Apparatus and method for audio decoding supporting two spectral band replication modes" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,506, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. (Munich).

"Apparatus and method for audio decoding supporting two spectral band replication modes" was invented by Matthias Hildenbrand (Erlangen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for audio decoding according to an embodiment is provided. The apparatus comprises a decoding module for decoding a received encoded audio signal to obtain a decoded audio signal having a first bandwidth. Moreover, the apparatus comprises a first spectral band replication module for conducting spectral band replication according t...