US Patent Issued to Gracenote on April 7 for "Synchronizing streaming media content across devices" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,344, issued on April 7, was assigned to Gracenote Inc. (New York).

"Synchronizing streaming media content across devices" was invented by Suresh Jeyachandran (Alameda, Calif.), Roger Tsai (Canville, Calif.), Paul Emmanuel Quinn (Kensington, Calif.) and Markus K. Cremer (Orinda, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, and systems are disclosed for synchronizing streaming media content. An example apparatus includes a storage device, and a processor to execute instructions to identify a first source streaming broadcast media to a first computing device based on an audio fingerprint of audio associated with the broadca...