{"id":14384,"date":"2017-11-26T23:15:59","date_gmt":"2017-11-26T23:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/mp3-patented-in-us-2\/"},"modified":"2017-11-26T23:15:59","modified_gmt":"2017-11-26T23:15:59","slug":"mp3-patented-in-us-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/mp3-patented-in-us-2\/","title":{"rendered":"MP3 Patented in US"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3950\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Logo_MP3.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[3949]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3950\" alt=\"Logo_MP3\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/2ba33__Logo_MP3-300x162.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"162\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/2ba33__Logo_MP3-300x162.jpg 300w, http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Logo_MP3-1024x555.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Logo_MP3.jpg 1575w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">There is no official logo for MPEG Audio Layer III, otherwise known as MP3<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>November 26, 1996<\/p>\n<p>United States Patent 5,579,430 is granted to the Fraunhofer Institut in Germany\u00a0for a &#8220;digital encoding process&#8221;, <a href=\"http:\/\/inventors.about.com\/od\/mstartinventions\/a\/MPThree.htm\" target=\"_blank\">the technology used in MEPG Audio Layer III, more commonly known as MP3<\/a>. MP3 technology paved the way for the digital music industry by creating a high-quality format that was compressible so that many songs could fit on the relatively small data storage devices of the time.\u00a0Fraunhofer had started work on compressing music as far back as 1977, began work on what would become MP3 in 1987, and was awarded a patent in Germany in 1989.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/11\/26\/mp3-patented-in-us\/\">MP3 Patented in US<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\">This Day in Tech History<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/11\/26\/mp3-patented-in-us\/\">This Day in Tech History<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tech History provided by This Day in Tech History.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is no official logo for MPEG Audio Layer III, otherwise known as MP3 November 26, 1996 United States Patent 5,579,430 is granted to the Fraunhofer Institut in Germany\u00a0for a &#8220;digital encoding process&#8221;, the technology used in MEPG Audio Layer III, more commonly known as MP3. MP3 technology paved the way for the digital music [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[2210],"class_list":["post-14384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today-in-tech","tag-patented"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14384"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}