US Patent Issued to The Nielsen Company (US) on April 7 for "Methods and apparatus to credit media segments shared among multiple media assets" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,348, issued on April 7, was assigned to The Nielsen Co. (US) LLC (New York).

"Methods and apparatus to credit media segments shared among multiple media assets" was invented by David H. Wright (Safety Harbor, Fla.), Daniel Nelson (Tampa, Fla.), Raghuram Ranganathan (Tampa, Fla.) and Derrick McCulley (Tampa, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to credit media segments shared among multiple media assets are disclosed. Example methods disclosed herein include comparing a sequence of monitored media signatures with a library of reference signatures to determine a signature match, th...