ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,440, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Daltboard LLC (Brentwood, Tenn.).

"System and methods for evaluating song play performance of broadcast music" was invented by Rob Dalton (Brentwood, Tenn.), John Philip Baird (Nashville, Tenn.) and Lance Goodman (Nashville, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a system and methods for evaluating song play performance of broadcast music. The analytics system comprises one or more data processing resources. The data processing resource receives transaction records that are related to songs being played on radio stations. The transaction records comprise a song id...