ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,749,492, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Method for quantizing line spectral frequencies" was invented by Anssi Sakari Ramo (Tampere, Finland) and Adriana Vasilache (Tampere, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "It is disclosed inter alia a method comprising: determining a first sub vector comprising a first plurality of audio parameter coefficients of an audio parameter vector, quantise the first sub vector with a first quantizer to; determining a residual vector, determine a second sub vector comprising a second plurality of coefficients of the residual vector, quantising the second sub v...