US Patent Issued to FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG on Sept. 22 for "Apparatus and method for encoding or decoding directional audio coding parameters using different time/frequency resolutions" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,046, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V. (Munich).

"Apparatus and method for encoding or decoding directional audio coding parameters using different time/frequency resolutions" was invented by Guillaume Fuchs (Bubenreuth, Germany), Jurgen Herre (Erlangen, Germany), Fabian Kuch (Erlangen, Germany), Stefan Dohla (Erlangen, Germany), Markus Multrus (Nuremberg, Germany), Oliver Thiergart (Erlangen, Germany), Oliver Wubbolt (Hannover, Germany), Florin Ghido (Nuremberg, Germany), Stefan Bayer (Nuremberg, Germany) and Wolfgang Jaegers (Nuremberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trad...