US Patent Issued to iHeart Media Management Services on July 22 for "Automated media identification using block comparisons of different recorded representations" (Pennsylvania, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,524, issued on July 22, was assigned to iHeart Media Management Services Inc. (San Antonio).

"Automated media identification using block comparisons of different recorded representations" was invented by Dyon Anniballi (Wayne, Pa.) and Philippe Generali (Scarsdale, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A media item included in a broadcast is identified by receiving, at a processing device including a processor, a first recorded representation of a first media broadcast, which includes a recording of at least a portion of a first media item, via a known media station. The first recorded representation. An identity of the first media ite...