ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,383, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Spotify AB (Stockholm).

"Adjusting a playlist of media content items" was invented by Joshua Pham (Cambridge, Mass.), Rustam Zinurov (Stockholm), Jeremy Theron Hopple (Jackson, Wyo.), Andrew Joseph Asman (Ft. Wright, Ky.), Birgit Yao (Boston), Gaston Montemayor Olaizola (New York), Yu-Ting Ger (Riverdale, Md.), Puja Maheshwari (New York) and Gabriel Joshua Heafitz (Glen Rock, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure is directed to adjusting a playlist of media-content items. One aspect is a method comprising receiving a request to adjust a playlist comprising initial media-content ...