US Patent Issued to Spotify on Oct. 27 for "Cuepoint determination system" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,439, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Spotify AB (Stockholm).

"Cuepoint determination system" was invented by Michael Scibor (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Thor Kell (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Rachel Malia Bittner (Brooklyn, N.Y.) and Tristan Jehan (Brooklyn, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cuepoint determination system utilizes a convolutional neural network (CNN) to determine cuepoint placements within media content items to facilitate smooth transitions between them. For example, audio content from a media content item is normalized to a plurality of beats, the beats are partitioned into temporal sections, and acoustic feature groups are extrac...