Sisvel News

16.11.2007

SISVEL grants ROBERT BOSCH GmbH an MPEG Audio Patent License

Turin (Italy) and Alexandria (VA) – November 16, 2007 – S.I.SV.EL.S.p.A, and its U.S. subsidiary Audio MPEG Inc., have granted to Robert Bosch GmbH a standard license under the MP3 and MPEG2 audio compression patents owned by France Telecom, TDF S.A., U.S. Philips Corporation, Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V., Institut für Rundfunktechnik GmbH, and Bayerische Rundfunkwerbung GmbH.

The license granted to Robert Bosch GmbH is only the latest of over 400 other licenses granted by Audio MPEG and SISVEL to the industry on these patents for MP3 players or other products using MPEG audio compression.