ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,321, issued on July 14, was assigned to Bandlab Singapore PTE LTD (Singapore).

"Distributed music collaboration" was invented by Steve Skillings (Whitinsville, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for enabling collaboration between musicians includes a server configured to be connected to remote clients via a wide area network. The server is configured to receive session tracks associated with a session, each of the session tracks containing data representative of music created by a music source during the session, and to store those session tracks in a session database that includes a plurality of session data units. Each o...