US Patent Issued to Gracenote on June 9 for "Music release disambiguation using multi-modal neural networks" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,651,166, issued on June 9, was assigned to Gracenote Inc. (Emeryville, Calif.).

"Music release disambiguation using multi-modal neural networks" was invented by Aneesh Vartakavi (Emeryville, Calif.) and Konstantinos Antonio Dimitriou (Emeryville, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for disambiguating musical artist names are disclosed. Musical-artist-release records (MARRs) may be input to a multi-modal artificial neural network (ANN). Each MARR may be associated with a musical release of an artist, and may include a release ID and an artist ID, and release data in categories including music media content and metadat...