US Patent Issued to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der angewandten Forschung on Aug. 25 for "Encoder, decoder and methods for coding a data structure" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,059, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. (Munich).

"Encoder, decoder and methods for coding a data structure" was invented by Karsten Suhring (Berlin), Michael Schafer (Berlin), Jonathan Pfaff (Berlin), Heiko Schwarz (Berlin), Detlev Marpe (Berlin) and Thomas Wiegand (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for decoding a data structure from a data stream is configured for sequentially reconstructing a set of features, wherein the apparatus is configured for reconstructing a feature of the set of features by deriving a quantization index from the data stre...