US Patent Issued to Apple on Sept. 9 for "Generating a customized social-driven playlist" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,650, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Generating a customized social-driven playlist" was invented by Bekir B. Dundar (Moraga, Calif.), Arvind S. Shenoy (San Jose, Calif.), Daniel Cartoon (South San Francisco, Calif.), Denise L. Chen (Menlo Park, Calif.), Drew R. Domm (Oakland, Calif.), Fredric R. Vinna (San Francisco), Mark H. Levy (Winchester, Great Britain), Paul C. Irvine (Mill Valley, Calif.), Priyo Mustafi (Fremont, Calif.), Thomas Alsina (Saratoga, Calif.), Erik Lindholm (Cupertino, Calif.) and Uli M. Schoberl (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Generating a customized playlist may...