ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,538, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Spatial music creation interface" was invented by Kristian Bauer (West Boylston, Mass.), Tiago Rafael Duarte (Marina Del Rey, Calif.), Terek Judi (Long Beach, Calif.), Shin Hwun Kang (Los Angeles) and Karen Stolzenberg (Venice, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method of providing a music creation interface using a head-mounted device, including displaying first and second geometric loops fixed relative to a location in the real world, the first and second geometric loops each including a plurality of beat indicators. The second geometric lo...