US Patent Issued to Gracenote on Oct. 20 for "Systems, methods, and apparatus to improve media identification" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,769,789, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Gracenote Inc. (New York).

"Systems, methods, and apparatus to improve media identification" was invented by Jeffrey Scott (Berkeley, Calif.), Matthew James Wilkinson (Emeryville, Calif.), Robert Coover (Orinda, Calif.) and Shashank Merchant (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed to improve media identification. An example apparatus includes a hash handler to generate a first set of reference matches by performing hash functions on a subset of media data associated with media to generate hashed media data based on...