US Patent Issued to SMULE on Feb. 17 for "Non-linear media segment capture and edit platform" (California, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,556, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to SMULE INC. (San Francisco).

"Non-linear media segment capture and edit platform" was invented by David Steinwedel (San Francisco), Andrea Slobodien (San Francisco), Jeffrey C. Smith (Atherton, Calif.) and Perry R. Cook (Jacksonville, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "User interface techniques provide user vocalists with mechanisms for forward and backward traversal of audiovisual content, including pitch cues, waveform- or envelope-type performance timelines, lyrics and/or other temporally-synchronized content at record-time, during edits, and/or in playback. Recapture of selected performance...