ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,981, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to iHeartMedia Management Services Inc. (San Antonio).
"Generating media stream including contextual markers" was invented by Daniel N. Mactiernan (Ocean City, N.J.), Jeffrey Lee Littlejohn (Cincinnati), David C. Jellison Jr. (Austin, Texas), Jeffrey James Bengel (Springboro, Ohio) and Todd Louis Goldberg (Chicago).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving a playback manifest, which includes destination platform information indicating that a destination to which media items included in the playback manifest are to be transmitted is an automotive application platform, and a hosted m...