ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,159, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to WingNut Films Productions Ltd. (Wellington, New Zealand).

"Audio source separation systems and methods" was invented by Emile de la Rey (Wellington, New Zealand) and Paris Smaragdis (Urbana, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for audio source separation include receiving an audio input stream including a mixture of audio signals generated from a plurality of audio sources; processing, through a trained audio source separation model, the audio input stream to generate a plurality of audio stems corresponding to one or more of the plurality of audio sources; updating, using...