ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,880, issued on July 28, was assigned to VOICEAGE Corp. (Canada).

"Method and device for audio band-width detection and audio band-width switching in an audio codec" was invented by Vaclav Eksler (Brno, Czech Republic).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and device detect, in an encoder part of a sound codec, an audio band-width of a sound signal to be coded. The device comprises an analyser of the sound signal and a final audio band-width decision module for delivering a final decision about the detected audio band-width using the result of the analysis of the sound signal. In the encoder part, the final audio band-width decision ...