ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,451,106, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to LEMON INC. (Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands).

"Automatic and interactive mashup system" was invented by Vibert Thio (Los Angeles), Bochen Li (Los Angeles), Haonan Chen (Culver City, Calif.) and Jitong Chen (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods directed to combining audio tracks are provided. More specifically, a first audio track and a second audio track are received. The first audio track is separated into a vocal component and one or more accompaniment components. The second audio track is separated into a vocal component and one or more accompaniment components. A stru...