ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,902, issued on May 27, was assigned to ADEIA MEDIA SOLUTIONS INC. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Synchronizing media content tag data" was invented by Mark Berner (Santa Clara, Calif.), David Chamberlin (Pacifica, Calif.) and Kevin P. Smith (Mountain View, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Tag data is created from in-band data in a media content item by a remote location while the media content item is being broadcasted by a content provider and received by the remote location. The tag data identifies locations in the media content item which enables media devices to accurately jump to particular locations in the media content item based o...