US Patent Issued to Spotify on March 11 for "Human-machine interfaces for utterance-based playlist selection" (Swedish, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,735, issued on March 11, was assigned to Spotify AB (Stockholm).

"Human-machine interfaces for utterance-based playlist selection" was invented by Daniel Bromand (Stockholm), Richard Mitic (Stockholm), Horia-Dragos Jurcut (Hagersten, Sweden), Henriette Susanne Martine Cramer (San Francisco) and Ruth Brillman (Somerville, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and devices for human-machine interfaces for utterance-based playlist selection are disclosed. In one method, a list of playlists is traversed and a portion of each is audibly output until a playlist command is received. Based on the playlist command, the traver...