US Patent Issued to Gracenote on March 3 for "Methods and apparatus for playback using pre-processed information and personalization" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,274, issued on March 3, was assigned to Gracenote Inc. (New York).

"Methods and apparatus for playback using pre-processed information and personalization" was invented by Robert Coover (Orinda, Calif.), Cameron Aubrey Summers (Oakland, Calif.), Joseph Renner (Oakland, Calif.), Markus Cremer (Orinda, Calif.) and Warren Mansfield (Emeryville, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed for playback using pre-processed profile information and personalization. Example apparatus disclosed herein include a synchronizer to, in response to receiving a media signal to be played ...