US Patent Issued to The Nielsen Company (US) on July 14 for "Methods and apparatus to generate a signature based on signature candidates" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,203, issued on July 14, was assigned to The Nielsen Co. (US) LLC (New York).

"Methods and apparatus to generate a signature based on signature candidates" was invented by Daniel Nelson (Tampa, Fla.), David H. Wright (Safety Harbor, Fla.) and Raghuram Ranganathan (Tampa, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to generate a signature based on signature candidates. An example apparatus disclosed herein includes first means for determining an alignment point of a first candidate signature segment and a second candidate signature segment, the first candidate signature segm...