ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,042, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to ALGORIDDIM GMBH (Munich).

"Method and device for decomposing, recombining and playing audio data" was invented by Kariem Morsy (Munich), Federico Tessmann (Munich) and Christoph Teschner (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system processes mixed input data using a neural network trained to separate audio data of predetermined timbres from mixed audio data and to obtain a group of decomposed tracks comprising at least first, second, and third decomposed audio tracks representing audio signals of first, second, and third predetermined timbres, respectively. The system reads a control input r...