US Patent Issued to FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG on March 24 for "Apparatus and method for encoding a plurality of audio objects or apparatus and method for decoding using two or more relevant audio objects" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,593, issued on March 24, was assigned to FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V. (Munich).

"Apparatus and method for encoding a plurality of audio objects or apparatus and method for decoding using two or more relevant audio objects" was invented by Andrea Eichenseer (Erlangen, Germany), Srikanth Korse (Erlangen, Germany), Stefan Bayer (Erlangen, Germany), Fabian Kuch (Erlangen, Germany), Oliver Thiergart (Erlangen, Germany), Guillaume Fuchs (Erlangen, Germany), Dominik Weckbecker (Erlangen, Germany), Jurgen Herre (Erlangen, Germany) and Markus Multrus (Erlangen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Ap...