US Patent Issued to Nissan North America on March 24 for "Synchronizing playback of multimedia between in-vehicle and mobile devices" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,699, issued on March 24, was assigned to Nissan North America Inc. (Franklin, Tenn.).

"Synchronizing playback of multimedia between in-vehicle and mobile devices" was invented by David Masao Nishijima (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Synchronizing playback of multimedia content between playback devices integrated into a primary device, such as an in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) system and one or more nearby secondary devices, such as mobile devices, being served multimedia content by the IVI system. The IVI system determines a playback latency of each mobile device and serves the multimedia content to each primary and ...