US Patent Issued to The Nielsen Company (US) on April 22 for "Source classification using HDMI audio metadata" (Vermont Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,508, issued on April 22, was assigned to The Nielsen Co. (US) LLC (New York).

"Source classification using HDMI audio metadata" was invented by Robert E. Taylor (Newbury, Vt.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed for source classification using HDMI audio metadata. An example apparatus includes a metadata extractor to extract values of audio encoding parameters from HDMI metadata obtained from a monitored HDMI port of a media device, the HDMI metadata corresponding to media being output from the monitored HDMI port; map the extracted values of the audio encoding parameters...