US Patent Issued to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung on Sept. 2 for "Low bitrate audio encoding/decoding scheme having cascaded switches" (German, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,406,680, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. (Munich).

"Low bitrate audio encoding/decoding scheme having cascaded switches" was invented by Bernhard Grill (Lauf, Germany), Roch Lefebvre (Canton de Magog, Canada), Bruno Bessette (Sherbrooke, Canada), Jimmy Lapierre (Sherbrooke, Canada), Philippe Gournay (Sherbrooke, Canada), Redwan Salami (Saint-Laurent, Canada), Stefan Bayer (Nuremberg, Germany), Guillaume Fuchs (Nuremberg, Germany), Stefan Geyersberger (Wuerzburg, Germany), Ralf Geiger (Nuremberg, Germany), Johannes Hilpert (Nuremberg, Germany), Ulrich Kraemer (Stuttgart, Germany), Jeremie Lecomte (Nuremberg, Germa...