ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,724, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to ANTESCOFO (Paris).

"Synchronization of a pre-recorded music accompaniment on a user's music playing" was invented by Jose Echeveste (Paris), Philippe Cuvillier (Paris) and Arshia Cont (Gentilly, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for synchronizing a pre-recorded music accompaniment to a music playing of a user. The music playing is captured by at least one microphone, which delivers an input acoustic signal feeding a processing unit, which includes a memory for storing data of the music accompaniment and provides an output acoustic signal based on the music accompaniment data to feed ...