US Patent Issued to Nielsen Consumer on May 27 for "Methods, systems, articles of manufacture, and apparatus for decoding images" (Spanish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,283, issued on May 27, was assigned to Nielsen Consumer LLC (Chicago).

"Methods, systems, articles of manufacture, and apparatus for decoding images" was invented by Roberto Arroyo (Madrid) and Jose Javier Yebes Torres (Valladolid, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example apparatus to decode an image comprises interface circuitry to receive an image of a purchase document, and processor circuitry to execute the machine readable instructions to extract text from the image of the purchase document, the image of the purchase document to memorialize a transaction that includes at least one product; determine a type of the purchase...