US Patent Issued to The Nielsen Company (US) on Feb. 18 for "Methods, apparatus and articles of manufacture to identify sources of network streaming services" (California, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,230,282, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to The Nielsen Co. (US) LLC (New York).

"Methods, apparatus and articles of manufacture to identify sources of network streaming services" was invented by Zafar Rafii (Berkeley, Calif.), Markus Cremer (Orinda, Calif.) and Bongjun Kim (Evanston, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus and articles of manufacture to identify sources of network streaming services are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a coding format identifier to identify, from a received first audio signal representing a decompressed second audio signal, an audio compression configuration used to compress a thi...