US Patent Issued to GRACENOTE on June 24 for "Generation of media station previews using a reference database" (California, New Mexico Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,039, issued on June 24, was assigned to GRACENOTE INC. (New York).

"Generation of media station previews using a reference database" was invented by Pat D. Fearn (Albuquerque, N.M.), Suresh Jeyachandran (Alameda, Calif.), Damon P. Fasching (San Francisco) and Mark W. Sherman (San Leandro, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, an example method includes (i) while a media playback device of a vehicle is playing back content received on a first channel, sending, by the media playback device to a server, a preview request, the preview request identifying a second channel that is different from the first channel; (ii) recei...