ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,658, issued on May 5, was assigned to Spotify AB (Stockholm).

"Systems and methods for interleaving recommended media items in a playlist" was invented by Gustav Soderstrom (Stockholm), Sandra Kristina Hansson (Kungsbacka, Sweden), Jason Allen Russell (Prides Crossing, Mass.), Kelly Drecourt (London), Morgan Hecht (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Simon Amor (London), Ajay Mathew Kalia (Newton, Mass.), Jeremy Hopple (Jackson, Wyo.), Jonathan Marmor (Charlotte, N.C.), Bianca Capretta (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Ingrid Maria Pettersson (Tollered, Sweden), Matthew Budelman (Providence, R.I.), Bjorn Hakan Lindberg (Gothenburg, Sweden), Gabriella Maria Eleonora Ljunggren (Stockholm), Ian Alexander Vannest (Boston...