ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,235, issued on July 22, was assigned to GRACENOTE INC. (New York).

"Broadcast profiling system" was invented by Markus K. Cremer (Orinda, Calif.), Rishabh Sharma (San Francisco), Michael Yeehua Chien (San Mateo, Calif.), Suresh Jeyachandran (Alameda, Calif.) and Paul Emmanuel Quinn (Kensington, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed for a broadcast profiling system. An example apparatus includes a memory storing instructions, and a processor configured to execute the instructions stored in the memory to compare a preference included in a user profile with a portion ...