US Patent Issued to TOUCHTUNES MUSIC on Sept. 30 for "Systems and/or methods for monitoring audio inputs to jukebox devices" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,408, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to TOUCHTUNES MUSIC COMPANY LLC (New York).

"Systems and/or methods for monitoring audio inputs to jukebox devices" was invented by Francois Beaumier (Montreal) and Michael Tooker (Pointe Claire, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain exemplary embodiments relate to techniques for detecting unlicensed music on a digital jukebox device. A monitoring module, system, subsystem or the like determines whether audio is being provided to the digital jukebox device from an external source for reproduction via a speaker system connected to the jukebox device in place of jukebox media available dir...