US Patent Issued to Spotify on March 4 for "Systems and methods for injecting content into media content items" (Swedish, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,534, issued on March 4, was assigned to Spotify AB (Stockholm).

"Systems and methods for injecting content into media content items" was invented by Edward Yizhi Chen (Astoria, N.Y.), Ludvig Asger Borgne (Stockholm), Andrew Apollonsky (Brooklyn, N.Y.) and Minchull Paul Kim (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device receives a first media content item and receives information indicating: a first insertion time within the first media content item; and a second media content item to be played at the first insertion time and/or one or more properties of the second media content item. The electronic device stores the fi...