ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,125, issued on April 21, was assigned to FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V. (Munich).

"Signal-adaptive remixing of separated audio sources" was invented by Matteo Torcoli (Erlangen, Germany), Jouni Paulus (Erlangen, Germany), Christian Simon (Erlangen, Germany), Harald Fuchs (Erlangen, Germany), Christian Uhle (Erlangen, Germany), Thomas Mayenfels (Erlangen, Germany) and Andreas Turnwald (Nuremberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There are described techniques (e.g. methods and systems) for signal-adaptive remixing of separated audio sources. A system may comprise: a source separation block ...