ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,207, issued on June 30, was assigned to Seoul National University R&DB Foundation (Seoul, South Korea).

"Apparatus and method for reasoning music based on brain computer interface" was invented by Chun Kee Chung (Seoul, South Korea), June Sic Kim (Seoul, South Korea), You Min Shin (Seoul, South Korea) and Ji I Kwon (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A BCI-based music inferring method according to an embodiment of the present disclosure is a BCI-based music inferring method in which at least part of each operation is performed by a processor, and includes receiving brain signal data of a subject imagining a melody, and...