US Patent Issued to Gracenote on Oct. 28 for "Radio head unit with dynamically updated tunable channel listing" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,051, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Gracenote Inc. (New York).

"Radio head unit with dynamically updated tunable channel listing" was invented by Suresh Jeyachandran (Alameda, Calif.), Damon P. Fasching (San Francisco), Hidenori Tanaka (San Francisco), Kaviarasu Vetriselvi (Walnut Creek, Calif.), Samit Raul (San Francisco) and Ashley Michelle Adams (Walnut Creek, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, an example method includes (i) encountering, by a media playback device of a vehicle, a trigger to update a list of currently tunable radio stations; (ii) based on encountering the trigger to update the list of current...