US Patent Issued to The Nielsen Company (US) on March 17 for "Methods and apparatus to create candidate reference signatures from signature fragments" (Florida, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,161, issued on March 17, was assigned to The Nielsen Co. (US) LLC (New York).

"Methods and apparatus to create candidate reference signatures from signature fragments" was invented by Albert T. Borawski (Oldsmar, Fla.), Geetanjali Arya (New York) and Satish Kumar Kukunuru (Tampa, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture to create a reference signature asset from matched signature fragments are disclosed. Example apparatus disclosed herein form a group of matched signature fragments corresponding to a same piece of media. Disclosed example apparatus also select a subset of matched s...