US Patent Issued to Nielsen Consumer on July 21 for "Methods, systems, articles of manufacture and apparatus to protect datasets" (Spanish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,320, issued on July 21, was assigned to Nielsen Consumer LLC (Chicago).

"Methods, systems, articles of manufacture and apparatus to protect datasets" was invented by Javier Tovar Velasco (Cigales, Spain) and Antonio Hurtado Garcia (Valladolid, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, apparatus, articles of manufacture, and methods are disclosed to protect datasets. An example apparatus includes interface circuitry, machine-readable instructions, and at least one processor circuit to be programmed by the machine-readable instructions to transform a watermark string to a numeric representation, the numeric representation including...