ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,104, issued on June 17, was assigned to SYNCHRO ARTS Ltd. (Epsom, Great Britain).

"Method and system for time and feature modification of signals" was invented by Jonathan Newland (Epsom, Great Britain), Phillip Jeffrey Bloom (Epsom, Great Britain) and William John Ellwood (Epsom, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The application relates to a computer implemented method and system for modifying at least one feature of an input audio signal based on features in a guide audio signal. The method comprises: determining matchable and unmatchable sections of the guide and input audio signals; generating a time-alignment path for...