ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,975, issued on March 17, was assigned to TuneIn Inc. (San Francisco).

"Methods and systems for geospatial identification of media streams" was invented by Moksha Adyanthaya (San Francisco), Paul Brody (San Francisco), Scott Collins (San Francisco), Jack Kim (San Francisco), Sarah Kate Emerson (San Francisco), Yuri Ono (San Francisco), Eric Wilcox (San Francisco), Richard Stern (San Francisco), Nicole Erthein (San Francisco), Devki Kalra (San Francisco), Joseph King (San Francisco) and Joseph Gomez (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for identifying broadcast sources within a MapView system....