US Patent Issued to Spotify on April 15 for "Systems and methods for media playlist generation" (New York, Maine, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,163, issued on April 15, was assigned to Spotify AB (Stockholm).

"Systems and methods for media playlist generation" was invented by Paul Lamere (Bath, Maine), Zachary Damien Shaw (Arlington, Mass.), Aaron Paul Harmon (New York) and Marcus Daniel Better (Arlington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The various implementations described herein include methods and devices for identifying and presenting content to users. In one aspect, a method includes providing a domain specific language (DSL) tool to a user of the computing device and receiving a plurality of user inputs via the DSL tool. The plurality of user inputs includes: an i...