ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,394,400, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Spotify AB (Stockholm).

"Relations between music items" was invented by Juan Jose Bosch Vicente (Paris).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of determining relations between music items, the method comprising determining a first input representation for a symbolic representation of a first music item, mapping the first input representation onto to one or more subspaces derived from a vector space using a first model, wherein each subspace models a characteristic of the music items, determining a second input representation for music data representing a second music item, mapping the second in...