ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,377, issued on July 15, was assigned to The Nielsen Co. (US) LLC (New York).

"Methods, articles of manufacture, and apparatus to edit tuning data collected via automated content recognition" was invented by Samantha M. Mowrer (La Grange, Ill.), Fatemehossadat Miri (Chicago), Balachander Shankar (Tampa, Fla.), David J. Kurzynski (Elgin, Ill.), Hariprasath Balasubramani (Odessa, Fla.), Sharan Senthilvasan (Tampa, Fla.), Lisa G. Rossi (Lutz, Fla.), Mike Anderson (Chicago) and Abhignya Goje (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed for editing tuning data collected via ...