US Patent Issued to Music IP Holdings (MIH) on Sept. 23 for "Multi-stage approval and controlled distribution of AI-generated derivative content" (California, South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,388, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Music IP Holdings (MIH) Inc. (Charleston, S.C.).

"Multi-stage approval and controlled distribution of AI-generated derivative content" was invented by Christopher Horton (Santa Monica, Calif.), Jeremy Uzan (Santa Monica, Calif.), Sion Elliott (Santa Monica, Calif.) and Daniel A. Drolet (Charleston, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Herein disclosed is receiving predetermined content, receiving a request to transform the predetermined content into a derivative work, receiving a requested theme for the derivative work, using generative artificial intelligence to create the derivative work gen...