US Patent Issued to SOUNDPAYS on Oct. 27 for "Method and system for encoding and decoding data in audio" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,331, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to SOUNDPAYS CORP. (Toronto).

"Method and system for encoding and decoding data in audio" was invented by Aybar Aydin (Oakville, Canada), Mark Madsen (Edmonton, Canada), Douglas Sutherland (Brampton, Canada) and Orest Sushko (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for encoding and decoding data in an audio channel are provided. At least one notch attribute for each of a set of notches to be applied to a source audio channel corresponding to data to be encoded is determined. The data is encoded by applying notch-filtering to the source audio channel to create a modified audio ch...