ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,637, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to SK TELECOM Co. LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Device and method for automatically removing a background sound source of a video" was invented by Dong Won Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Suk Bong Kwon (Seoul, South Korea), Yong Hyun Park (Seoul, South Korea), Jong Kil Yun (Seoul, South Korea) and Jeong Yeon Lim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One aspect of the present disclosure provides a method for automatically removing a background sound source of audio data of a video, including separating the audio data including at least one sound source component into a first component related ...