US Patent Issued to Google on July 1 for "Systems and methods for determining that a media item is being presented" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,836, issued on July 1, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for determining that a media item is being presented" was invented by Vincent Dureau (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The various implementations described herein include systems and methods for determining that media items are currently being presented. In one aspect, a method performed at a client device includes: (1) identifying a media item potentially being presented on an output device coupled to the client device; (2) calculating a level of confidence that the identified media item is currently being presented to the...