ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,405, issued on May 26, was assigned to Music IP Holdings Inc. (Nashville, Tenn.).

"Multi-stage approval and controlled distribution of AI-generated derivative content" was invented by Christopher Horton (Santa Monica, Calif.), Jeremy Uzan (Santa Monica, Calif.), Sion Elliott (Santa Monica, Calif.) and Daniel A. Drolet (Charleston, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A request is received associated with source content and including one or more user-specified parameters for creating a derivative work based on the source content. The derivative work is generated in response to evaluating the request against pre-generation preference dat...