US Patent Issued to The Nielsen Company (US) on Nov. 11 for "Use of steganographic information as basis to process a voice command" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,505, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to The Nielsen Co. (US) LLC (New York).

"Use of steganographic information as basis to process a voice command" was invented by Stanley Wellington Woodruff (Palm Harbor, Fla.) and John Thomas LiVoti (Clearwater, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for voice-command processing based on steganographically encoded information. In an example method, a computing system receives a voice command spoken by a user, and the computing system also extracts information from steganographic encoding in an environment of the user. The computing system then uses the information extracted from t...