ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,756,881, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Music IP Holdings Inc. (Nashville, Tenn.).

"Context-triggered proactive media playback system" was invented by Ichiro Tamaki (Charleston, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain aspects of the disclosure provide systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media for proactive media curation using an on-device autonomous agent. A mobile device collects ambient context data via sensors and detects a composite event trigger based on a conjunction of conditions such as geofence exit, activity transition, and velocity threshold. The mobile device encodes the context data into a context v...