US Patent Issued to The Nielsen Company (US) on May 5 for "Methods and apparatus for optimizing station reference fingerprint loading using reference watermarks" (Florida, Alabama Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,071, issued on May 5, was assigned to The Nielsen Co. (US) LLC (New York).

"Methods and apparatus for optimizing station reference fingerprint loading using reference watermarks" was invented by James Petro (Dunedin, Fla.), Dan Nelson (Tampa, Fla.), Deborah Cross (Troy, Ala.) 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 selectively generating and storing hashed reference signatures. An example method disclosed herein determining whether watermark coverage of a first media segment satisfies a dropout constraint, the first media segment correspo...