Licensing
A list of companies that registered patent statements on AAC with ISO/IEC as well as more information about ISO Standards and Patents can be found at the ISO website.
Via Licensing administers a joint patent license which provides a convenient and cost-effective way to acquire the rights to practice the essential AAC patents from a set of licensors. Often referred to as the “Unified” AAC license, the program provides coverage for AAC technologies listed at the VIA Licensing website.
Standards
- "ISO/IEC 14496-3: Information technology — Coding of audio-visual objects- Part 3: Audio" and
- "ISO/IEC 23003-3: Information technology — MPEG audio technologies — Part 3: Unified speech and audio coding".