ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,617, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to LEMON INC. (Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands).

"Media data processing" was invented by Hanlin Lu (Los Angeles), Jianbo Yuan (Los Angeles) and Xinyu Li (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There are proposed methods, devices, and media for media data processing. In a method, a spectrogram representation is obtained for the media data from a spectrogram of the media data, and a waveform representation is obtained for the media data from a waveform of the media data. A fusion representation is generated for the media data based on the spectrogram representation and the waveform representation. ...