US Patent Issued to The Nielsen Co. (LLC) on March 17 for "Methods, system and article of manufacture, and apparatus to identify media using screen capture" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,155, issued on March 17, was assigned to The Nielsen Co. (LLC) (New York).

"Methods, system and article of manufacture, and apparatus to identify media using screen capture" was invented by Stanley Wellington Woodruff (Palm Harbor, Fla.) and John T. Livoti (Clearwater, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed that utilize screen capture to identify media. Example meter devices disclosed herein are to, in response to determining a media device is powered on, monitor a media device to detect audio output by the media device. Disclosed example meter devices are also to, ...