ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,130, issued on May 26, was assigned to ALGORIDDIM GMBH (Munich).

"Method, device and software for applying an audio effect" was invented by Kariem Morsy (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a method for processing music audio data, comprising the steps of providing input audio data representing a first piece of music containing a mixture of predetermined musical timbres, decomposing the input audio data to generate at least a first audio track representing a first musical timbre selected from the predetermined musical timbres, and a second audio track representing a second musical timbre selected from ...