US Patent Issued to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der angewandten Forschung on Sept. 15 for "Post-processor, pre-processor, audio encoder, audio decoder and related methods for enhancing transient processing" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,286, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. (Germany).

"Post-processor, pre-processor, audio encoder, audio decoder and related methods for enhancing transient processing" was invented by Florin Ghido (Nuremberg, Germany), Sascha Disch (Furth, Germany), Jurgen Herre (Erlangen, Germany), Alexander Adami (Gundelsheim, Germany) and Franz Reutelhuber (Erlangen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An audio post-processor for post-processing an audio signal having a time-variable high frequency gain information as side information includes: a band extractor for extractin...