US Patent Issued to Spotify on Sept. 23 for "Systems and methods for switching between media content" (Massachusetts, California, Rhode Island, New York, Tennessee, Maine Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,465, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Spotify AB (Stockholm).

"Systems and methods for switching between media content" was invented by Aaron Paul Harmon (New York), Adam Shonkoff (Reading, Mass.), Bradford Lage (Cranston, R.I.), Johanna Anderson Favole (Franklin, Mass.), Justin David Covington (Nashville, Tenn.), Paul Lamere (Bath, Maine), Timothy Andrew Chagnon (Concord, Mass.), Debra Lynn McDonald (San Francisco), Matthew Julian Seaton (Somerville, Mass.), Matthew Budelman (Providence, R.I.) and Scott Kagan (Newton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for personalizing media content for a user is provided. The method...