US Patent Issued to The Nielsen Company (US) on May 5 for "Media identification using watermarks and signatures" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,072, issued on May 5, was assigned to The Nielsen Co. (US) LLC (New York).

"Media identification using watermarks and signatures" was invented by Daniel Nelson (Tampa, Fla.), Alexander Topchy (New Port Richey, Fla.) and Jeremey M. Davis (New Port Richey, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus, systems, articles of manufacture, and methods to identify media using watermarks and signatures are disclosed. An example apparatus includes at least one memory, instructions, and processor circuitry to execute the instructions to: determine a first time and a category indicated by a watermark detected in the media, determine a search wind...