US Patent Issued to The Nielsen Company (US) on June 10 for "Methods, systems, apparatus, and articles of manufacture to perform time alignment for watermarks" (Maryland, Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,295, issued on June 10, was assigned to The Nielsen Co. (US) LLC (New York).

"Methods, systems, apparatus, and articles of manufacture to perform time alignment for watermarks" was invented by Vladimir Kuznetsov (Ellicott City, Md.) and Wendell D. Lynch (East Lansing, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed to perform time alignment for watermarks. An example apparatus adjusts a power value of an element of a template based on respective average magnitudes and respective tonality ratios corresponding to a plurality of frequency representations of a media signal, the ...