US Patent Issued to Gracenote Digital Ventures on Feb. 17 for "Audio streaming of text-based articles from newsfeeds" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,460, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Gracenote Digital Ventures LLC (New York).

"Audio streaming of text-based articles from newsfeeds" was invented by Venkatarama Anilkumar Panguluri (Milpitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example embodiment may involve receiving, from a client device, a selection of text-based articles from newsfeeds. The selection may specify that the text-based articles have been flagged for audible playout. The example embodiment may also involve, possibly in response to receiving the selection of the text-based articles, retrieving text-based articles from the newsfeeds. The example embodiment ma...