ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,564, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Song generation based on a text input" was invented by Guang Zhou (Redmond, Wash.), Wei Wang (Redmond, Wash.), Jiawei Li (Redmond, Wash.), Peijun Xia (Redmond, Wash.), Xianchao Wu (Tokyo), Lu Yang (Redmond, Wash.) and Yuanchun Xu (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure provides a method and an apparatus for song generation. A text input may be received. A topic and an emotion may be extracted from the text input. A melody may be determined according to the topic and the emotion. Lyrics may be generated according to the ...