ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,599, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to YAMAHA Corp. (Hamamatsu, Japan).

"Audio processing method, audio processing system, and recording medium" was invented by Keijiro Saino (Hamamatsu, Japan) and Ryunosuke Daido (Hamamatsu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An audio processing method, for each time step of a plurality of time steps on a time axis: acquires encoded data that reflects current musical features of a tune for a current time step and musical features of the tune for succeeding time steps succeeding the current time step; acquires control data according to a real-time instruction provided by a user; and generates acou...