US Patent Issued to The Nielsen Company (US) on July 28 for "Signature matching with meter data aggregation for media identification" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,931, issued on July 28, was assigned to The Nielsen Co. (US) LLC (New York).

"Signature matching with meter data aggregation for media identification" was invented by Daniel Nelson (Tampa, Fla.) and Raghuram Ranganathan (Tampa, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one example, a method is disclosed. The method includes, for each meter hash key of multiple meter hash keys generated from meter signatures in aggregated meter data: identifying a set of reference hash keys that match the meter hash key, and storing ones of the set of reference hash keys in respective data structures corresponding to media assets represented by the ones ...