ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,057, issued on July 15, was assigned to Spotify AB (Stockholm).

"Playback of audio content along with associated non-static media content" was invented by Dariusz Dziuk (Stockholm), Tetiana Karagodova (Stockholm), Andrea Nicole Doroja Limjoco (Stockholm) and Roy Menahem Marmelstein (Stockholm).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method performed by a first electronic device includes transmitting, to a server system, a first request message that includes an instruction requesting the server system to return a first audio content item selected via the first electronic device. The method includes receiving, from the server system: the first...