ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,072, issued on July 8, was assigned to Sony Corp. (Tokyo).

"Method, apparatus, system and computer program for processing an almost-periodic input signal" was invented by Paulius Sarka (Basingstoke, Great Britain), Serkan Eryilmaz (Basingstoke, Great Britain), Joana Dries (Basingstoke, Great Britain) and Gonzalo Bailador (Basingstoke, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples relate to a method, an apparatus and a computer program for processing an almost-periodic input signal comprising a plurality of signal portions of varying duration, and to a system comprising such an apparatus and a visual output device. The pluralit...