ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,572, issued on June 10, was assigned to Spotify AB (Stockholm).

"Systems and methods for generating trailers (summaries) for audio content using a short rolling time window" was invented by Xingran Zhu (Stockholm), Jussi Jerker Karlgren (Stockholm) and Md. Iftekhar Tanveer (Revere, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device receives an audio file and divides the audio file into a plurality of segments. The electronic device, automatically, without user input, determines, for each segment, a descriptor from a plurality of descriptors and a value of the descriptor for the segment. The electronic device selects one or mor...