ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,826, issued on March 3, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Determining connections between sound recordings and compositions" was invented by Stanley Wolf (Palo Alto, Calif.), Colby Ranger (Millbrae, Calif.) and Harris Cohen (Burlingame, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations disclose determining connections between sound recordings and compositions. A method includes maintaining, by a server device of a content sharing platform, a serving structure to represent resources comprising sound recording resources and composition resources and explicit connections between the resources, identifying inferred...