US Patent Issued to The Nielsen Company (US) on July 14 for "Methods and apparatus to credit unidentified media" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,025, issued on July 14, was assigned to The Nielsen Co. (US) LLC (New York).

"Methods and apparatus to credit unidentified media" was invented by James Petro (Dunedin, Fla.), Daniel Nelson (Tampa, Fla.), Raghuram Ranganathan (Tampa, Fla.) and Sandeep Tapse (Oldsmar, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to credit unidentified media are disclosed. Disclosed example apparatus include a database updater to store a first group of signatures representative of unidentified media in a database, the first group of signatures obtained from a first media meter to monitor a first media prese...