ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,084, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to ALPHATHETA Corp. (Yokohama, Japan).

"Sound device, program, and control method" was invented by Tatsuya Nakagoshi (Yokohama, Japan) and Hisashi Kokawa (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an audio device for performing control related to a separation process of separating audio data of a music piece into multiple parts, the multiple parts being included in the music piece, the audio device including: a display controlling module configured to cause a display to display labels representing the respective multiple parts; an operation acquiring module configured to acquire i...