US Patent Issued to iHeartMedia Management Services on June 30 for "Responding to a tuning request by presenting an alternate media station" (Ohio Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,512, issued on June 30, was assigned to iHeartMedia Management Services Inc. (San Antonio).

"Responding to a tuning request by presenting an alternate media station" was invented by Jeffrey Lee Littlejohn (Mason, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes tuning an end user device to a first media station in response to first tuning input received at the end user device, extracting, at the end user device, a station identifier from content obtained from the first media station, and obtaining access information associated with a second media station based on the station identifier of the first media station. In response to ...