ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,633,276, issued on May 19, was assigned to Music IP Holdings Inc. (Nashville, Tenn.).

"Super fan music and media subscription tiers" was invented by Michael Nash (Charleston, S.C.), Jonathan Dworkin (Charleston, S.C.) and Christopher Horton (Charleston, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to a system having at least one processor and memory instructions executable by the at least one processor to maintain a data store that associates subscribers with subscription tiers and stores a permission policy defining allowed subscriber interactions with media items supplied by creators. The instructio...