US Patent Issued to The Nielsen Company (US) on July 7 for "Methods and apparatus to identify an episode number based on fingerprint and matched viewing information" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,677,033, issued on July 7, was assigned to The Nielsen Co. (US) LLC (New York).

"Methods and apparatus to identify an episode number based on fingerprint and matched viewing information" was invented by James Petro (Dunedin, Fla.), Sandeep Tapse (Tampa, Fla.) and Albert T. Borawski (Oldsmar, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture to identify an episode number based on fingerprint and matched viewing information are disclosed. An example method includes processing meter data to identify a presented media based on a bumper included in a media, filtering the meter data based on the identi...