ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,112, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Tree Goat Media INC (New York).

"Systems and methods for transforming digital audio content" was invented by John Ivers (Winnetka, Ill.), Theo Rosendorf (Tucker, Ga.), Kevin Carlson (Woodstock, Ga.), Michael Kakoyiannis (New York) and Sherry Mills (Setauket, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for platform-independent visualization of audio content, in particular audio tracks utilizing a central computer system in communication with user devices via a computer network. The central system utilizes various algorithms to identify spoken content from audio tracks and identifies "great mo...