US Patent Issued to The Nielsen Company (US) on Feb. 10 for "Methods and apparatus to identify media based on watermarks across different audio streams and/or different watermarking techniques" (Florida, Maine Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,803, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to The Nielsen Co. (US) LLC (New York).

"Methods and apparatus to identify media based on watermarks across different audio streams and/or different watermarking techniques" was invented by Justin Fahnestock (Tampa, Fla.), Ronan Heffernan (Wesley Chapel, Fla.), Muhammad Amir (Palm Harbor, Fla.), Wes Kercher (Tampa, Fla.), Scott Barraclough (New Port Richey, Fla.) and John Kistenmacher (Brunswick, Maine).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example apparatus disclosed herein are to detect a first watermark embedded in an audio stream associated with media, the first watermark embedded and detected based o...