US Patent Issued to The Nielsen Company (US) on Nov. 18 for "Timely addition of human-perceptible audio to mask an audio watermark" (Florida Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,192, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to The Nielsen Co. (US) LLC (New York).

"Timely addition of human-perceptible audio to mask an audio watermark" was invented by Christen V. Nielsen (Dunedin, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for adding overtly human-perceptible supplemental audio content into a media stream to help mask audio effects of an audio watermark in the media stream. A method involves receiving a media stream that defines a sequence of audio content presentable by a content presentation device, modifying the media stream to produce a modified media stream that defines the sequence of audio content, ...