ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,842, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Musixmatch S.P.A. (Bologna, Italy).

"Method and system for analyzing, classifying, and node-ranking content in audio tracks" was invented by Loreto Parisi (Bologna, Italy), Marco Paglia (Bologna, Italy), Alessio Albano (Bologna, Italy), Paolo Magnani (Bologna, Italy), Pierfrancesco Melucci (Bologna, Italy) and Maria Stella Tavella (Bologna, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method is disclosed. The method includes receiving a first content item, transcribing audio included in the first content item to obtain text associated with the audio, determinin...