US Patent Issued to Avid Technology on July 28 for "Context-aware input gestures for music creation applications" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,856, issued on July 28, was assigned to Avid Technology Inc. (Burlington, Mass.).

"Context-aware input gestures for music creation applications" was invented by Sylvain Girard (Montreal, Canada) and Joseph Plazak (Verdun, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Music creation applications enable users to enter new objects into a musical project using gestures mediated by input maps that are adapted to the musical context of the object entry location. The musical context may be defined by an explicit aspect of the musical project or implicitly by notes or intervals already entered into the project. The adaptation of the input maps may i...