ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,705, issued on April 22, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Method and system for seamless media synchronization and handoff" was invented by Christopher T. Eubank (Mountain View, Calif.) and Tomlinson Holman (Palm Springs, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method performed by a portable media player device. The method receives a microphone signal that includes audio content output by an audio playback device via a loudspeaker. The method determines identification information regarding the audio content, wherein the identification information is determined through an acoustic signal analysis of the microphone signa...