ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,651,607, issued on June 9, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus and method that use learning models to alter watermark information based on mixed audio signals" was invented by Naoya Takahashi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus includes a decoder that extracts, using a certain learning model, additional information included in a mixed sound signal where a plurality of sound source signals is mixed together. A change in the sound source signals and the mixed sound signal caused by addition of the additional information is imperceptible."

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