ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,987, issued on March 17, was assigned to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL) (Stockholm).

"Methods for frequency domain packet loss concealment and related decoder" was invented by Martin Sehlstedt (Lulea, Sweden) and Jonas Svedberg (Lulea, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, decoder, and program code for filling an analysis window length with a time domain signal for concealing a lost audio frame associated with a received audio signal. A first segment of a previously received part of a received audio signal is copied from a prototype buffer. A second segment of the previously received part of the received audio sign...