ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,489, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to The Nielsen Co. (US) LLC (New York).

"Scalable architectures for reference signature matching and updating" was invented by Raghuram Ranganathan (Tampa, Fla.), Anand Jain (Ellicott City, Md.) and Venugopal Srinivasan (Tarpon Springs, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed for scalable architectures for reference signature matching and updating. An example method for scalable architectures for reference signature matching and updating includes accessing site signatures to be compared to reference signatures from a first group of ...