US Patent Issued to The Nielsen Company (US) on Feb. 10 for "Methods and apparatus to identify media for ahead of time watermark encoding" (Florida Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,792, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to The Nielsen Co. (US) LLC (New York).

"Methods and apparatus to identify media for ahead of time watermark encoding" was invented by Khaldun Karazoun (Tampa, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed to identify media for ahead of time watermark encoding. An example apparatus includes a media interface to determine a characteristic of media, the characteristic corresponding to a broadcast time of the media; and a controller to: determine an identifier corresponding to the media; transmit a query including the characteristic and the...