ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,985, issued on May 20.
"Multi-party collaboration methods and systems" was invented by Dong Seo (Middle Village, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for multi-party collaboration involves utilizing a processor, network interface, input device, and output device to facilitate collaborative music creation. The method includes playing a backing track through the output device, recording a local performance via the input device, and transmitting the local performance to a remote device over a network. The remote device, equipped with its own processor, network interface, input device, and output device, receives the local perfor...