# Fraunhofer Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der Angewandten Forschung eV — Patents explained on PatentBrief

Fraunhofer Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der Angewandten Forschung eV has 1 landmark patent explained in plain English on PatentBrief.

- [How Digital Audio Compression Works](https://patentbrief.org/patent/us/5579430/digital-encoding-process) — granted 1996
  A foundational method for compressing digital audio by transforming sound into spectral data and using variable-length codes to store it efficiently.

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