ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,988, issued on March 17, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Stockholm).

"Method and apparatus for controlling audio frame loss concealment" was invented by Stefan Bruhn (Sollentuna, Sweden) and Jonas Svedberg (Lulea, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, disclosed is a method and an apparatus thereof for controlling a concealment method for a lost audio frame of a received audio signal. A method for a decoder of concealing a lost audio frame comprises detecting in a property of the previously received and reconstructed audio signal, or in a statistical ...