# Karl-Heinz Brandenburg — Patents explained on PatentBrief

Karl-Heinz Brandenburg 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.

**Full profile:** https://patentbrief.org/inventor/karl-heinz-brandenburg

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