ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,862, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Spotify AB (Stockholm).
"Repetitive-motion activity enhancement based upon media content selection" was invented by Owen Smith (Stockholm), Tristan Jehan (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Sten Garmark (Stockholm) and Rahul Sen (Stockholm).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, devices, apparatuses, components, methods, and techniques for repetitive-motion activity enhancement based upon media content selection are provided. An example media-playback device for enhancement of a repetitive-motion activity includes a media-output device that plays media content items, a plurality of media content selection engine...