ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,823, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL) (Stockholm).

"Method and apparatus for controlling multichannel audio frame loss concealment" was invented by Erik Norvell (Upplands Vasby, Sweden) and Chamran Moradi Ashour (Stockholm).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of approximating a lost or corrupted multichannel audio frame of a multichannel audio signal in a decoding device is provided. The device may generate a down-mix error concealment frame and transform the frame into a frequency domain to generate a transformed down-mix error concealment frame. The device may decorrelate the transformed ...