US Patent Issued to New Resonance on Feb. 18 for "Mapping characteristics of music into a visual display" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,230,239, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to New Resonance LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Mapping characteristics of music into a visual display" was invented by John Fargo Lathrop (Mountain View, Calif.) and Fred Jay Cummins (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for visualizing music using a perceptually conformal mapping system are provided. A music source file is input into a processor configured to carry out a series of steps on audio cues identified within the music and ultimately generate a simultaneous visual representation on a display device. The series of steps include application of one or more percep...