US Patent Issued to Nielsen Consumer on Aug. 4 for "Methods, systems, articles of manufacture, and apparatus to improve space modeling" (Illinois, Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,945, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Nielsen Consumer LLC (Chicago).

"Methods, systems, articles of manufacture, and apparatus to improve space modeling" was invented by Evren Gul (Chicago) and Alvin Lim (Turtletown, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed to improve space modeling identify a category-level planogram length and category-level predictors for a category, apply a first model to transform the category-level planogram length and the category-level predictors for the category to a first-model-compatible category-level planogram length and first-model-comp...