US Patent Issued to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung on Sept. 8 for "Concept for combined dynamic range compression and guided clipping prevention for audio devices" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,595, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. (Munich).

"Concept for combined dynamic range compression and guided clipping prevention for audio devices" was invented by Fabian Kuech (Erlangen, Germany), Christian Uhle (Ursensollen, Germany), Michael Kratschmer (Fuerth, Germany), Bernhard Neugebauer (Buckenhof, Germany), Michael Meier (Aurachtal, Germany) and Arne Borsum (Erlangen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides a concept for combined dynamic range compression and guided clipping prevention for audio devices. An audio decoder for decoding a...