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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 21, 2026
Filed:
Apr. 25, 2025
Sound Patrol Inc., Los Angeles, CA (US);
Geert Trooskens, Meise, BE;
Lamara De Brouwer, Malibu, CA (US);
Benjamin Ray Resnick, Plano, TX (US);
Walter Adolf De Brouwer, Malibu, CA (US);
Sound Patrol Inc., Los Angeles, CA (US);
Abstract
The present disclosure relates to a system and method for detecting musical infringement in symbolic music. The system receives a first musical composition and, when provided as audio, converts it into a symbolic format using a transcription neural network trained to extract a main melody. It then generates k-mer sequences comprising consecutive notes, indexes these sequences in a data structure configured for dynamic conditioning, and compares them to reference musical compositions. Upon estimating a similarity measure that exceeds a threshold, the system performs a refined local sequence alignment adapted for music, accounting for key shifts, rests, and melodic or rhythmic variations. Based on this refined alignment, the system determines whether the first musical composition includes a musical fragment that infringes upon or regurgitates a portion of at least one reference composition.