US Patent Issued to GRACENOTE on Sept. 23 for "Use of mismatched query fingerprint as basis to validate media identification" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,346, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to GRACENOTE INC. (New York).

"Use of mismatched query fingerprint as basis to validate media identification" was invented by John Colton (Emeryville, Calif.), Damon Fasching (Emeryville, Calif.), Suresh Jeyachandran (Emeryville, Calif.), Dong-In Lee (Emeryville, Calif.) and Kathyrene Villariba (Emeryville, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling presentation of metadata regarding media. A system could generate query fingerprints representing media content being presented, the media content having been identified as being a first media-content item. The system could furthe...