ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,266,329, issued on April 1, was assigned to DAACI Ltd. (London).
"Form atom heuristics and generative composition" was invented by Joseph Michael William Lyske (Greater London, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A Form Atom defined by self-contained constructional properties representing a historical corpus of music and contained within metadata of the Form Atom is disclosed. The Form Atom has a generative set of heuristics to support generation of a set of chords in a chord scheme or many different sets of chords. The generated chords are spaced out within a defined window of musical time by chord spacer heuristics. The Form A...