US Patent Issued to Gracenote on July 22 for "Vehicle-based media system with audio ad and visual content synchronization feature" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,523, issued on July 22, was assigned to Gracenote Inc. (New York).

"Vehicle-based media system with audio ad and visual content synchronization feature" was invented by Nisarg A Modi (San Ramon, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, an example method to be performed by a vehicle-based media system includes (a) receiving audio content; (b) causing one or more speakers to output the received audio content; (c) using a microphone of the vehicle-based media system to capture the output audio content; (d) identifying reference audio content that has at least a threshold extent of similarity with the captured audio content; ...