US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on July 7 for "System and method for modulation domain-based audio signal encoding" (American, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,164, issued on July 7, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"System and method for modulation domain-based audio signal encoding" was invented by Dushyant Sharma (Tracy, Calif.), Patrick Aubrey Naylor (Reading, Great Britain) and William Francis Ganong III (Brookline, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, computer program product, and computing system for processing an audio signal by converting the audio signal to the modulation domain. The modulation domain audio signal is encoded with a plurality of carrier signals and a plurality of modulator signals derived from the modulation domain audio...