ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,633,230, issued on May 19, was assigned to Sony Group Corp. (Tokyo).

"Electronic device, method and computer program" was invented by Falk-Martin Hoffmann (Stuttgart, Germany), Giorgio Fabbro (Stuttgart, Germany), Marc Ferras Font (Stuttgart, Germany), Thomas Kemp (Stuttgart, Germany) and Stefan Uhlich (Stuttgart, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device having a circuitry configured to perform audio source separation on an audio input signal to obtain a vocals signal and an accompaniment signal and to perform a confidence analysis on a user's voice signal based on the vocals signal to provide guidance to the user."

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