ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,707,129, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Scene-aware generation of music visualizations" was invented by Ian James Wallace (Berkeley, Calif.), Chong Huang (Santa Clara, Calif.), Kevin Thomas Merchant (Oakton, Va.), Murad Al Haj (Mountain View, Calif.), Surbhi Singhania (San Mateo, Calif.), Mahesh Goud Tandarpally (Seattle), Oytun Akman (Oakland, Calif.), Kevin Karsch (Oakland, Calif.) and Tal Bar-Or (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are generally described for scene-aware generation of music visualizations. An example method includes receiving a music sample and a projection ...