US Patent Issued to Spotify on Dec. 30 for "Audio content segmentation and naming" (American, German, British, Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,257, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Spotify AB (Stockholm).

"Audio content segmentation and naming" was invented by Azin Ghazimatin (Berlin), Ekaterina Garmash (London), Ann Clifton (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Paul Bennett (Kirkland, Wash.), Claudia Hauff (Delft, Netherlands), Kristen Sheets (Somerville, Mass.), Martin Achenbach (Cologne, Germany), Oguz Semerci (Cambridge, Mass.), Sahitya Mantravadi (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Remi Galvez (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Ofeliya Kalaydzhyan (Boston) and Divya Narayanan (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example implementations include dividing a textual transcript of digital audio content into a sequence of ...