ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,408, issued on July 1, was assigned to YOUSICIAN OY (Helsinki).

"Method for identifying a song" was invented by Christoph Thur (Helsinki), Anssi Klapuri (Helsinki) and Veli-Jussi Kesti (Helsinki).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for identifying a song includes: providing audio data including musical notation information for songs, receiving a real-time audio signal of a user performing on an instrument, detecting playing activity in successive segments, detecting notes and/or chords from the audio signal, storing user play history information including of information of songs a user has played before and num...