ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,592, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to AVID TECHNOLOGY INC. (Burlington, Mass.).

"Dynamic filtered data within music creation projects" was invented by Joseph Plazak (Verdun, Canada) and Daniel Witkowski (Montreal, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Dynamic user-defined stave filters enable users of scorewriter software applications to generate de-condensed musical parts from condensed scores. When a stave filter is applied to some or all of a stave displaying multiple types of musical element, one or more of the musical element types are hidden from view. Stave filters remove from display note and/or non-note element types. Filt...