US Patent Issued to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der angewandten Forschung on Sept. 1 for "Audio encoder and decoder using a frequency domain processor, a time domain processor, and a cross processing for continuous initialization" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,620, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. (Munich).

"Audio encoder and decoder using a frequency domain processor, a time domain processor, and a cross processing for continuous initialization" was invented by Sascha Disch (Furth, Germany), Martin Dietz (Nuremberg, Germany), Markus Multrus (Nuremberg, Germany), Guillaume Fuchs (Bubenreuth, Germany), Emmanuel Ravelli (Erlangen, Germany), Matthias Neusinger (Rohr, Germany), Markus Schnell (Nuremberg, Germany), Benjamin Schubert (Nuremberg, Germany) and Bernhard Grill (Ruckersdorf, Germany).

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