ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,542, issued on April 29, was assigned to Tencent Music Entertainment Technology (Shenzhen) Co. Ltd. (Guangdong, China).

"Method for accompaniment purity class evaluation and related devices" was invented by Dong Xu (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for accompaniment purity class evaluation and related devices are provided. Multiple first accompaniment data and a label corresponding to each of the multiple first accompaniment data are obtained, the label being used to indicate that corresponding first accompaniment data is pure instrumental accompaniment data or instrumental accompaniment data with background no...