US Patent Issued to Gracenote on May 12 for "Cover song identification method and system" (American, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,718, issued on May 12, was assigned to Gracenote Inc. (New York).

"Cover song identification method and system" was invented by Xiaochen Liu (Jersey City, N.J.), Joseph P. Renner (Lille, France), Joshua E. Morris (Nashville, Tenn.), Todd J. Hodges (Oakland, Calif.), Robert Coover (Orinda, Calif.) and Zafar Rafii (Berkeley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cover song identification method implemented by a computing system comprises receiving, by a computing system and from a user device, harmonic pitch class profile (HPCP) information that specifies one or more HPCP features associated with target audio content. A major chord pr...