ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,353, issued on April 21, was assigned to The Nielsen Co. (US) LLC (New York).

"Deduplication across multiple different data sources to identify common devices" was invented by Rachel Worth Olson (Elk Grove Village, Ill.), Michael Evan Anderson (Chicago), Rishi Sriram (Naperville, Ill.), Margaret M. Orton (Chicago), Fatemehossadat Miri (Chicago), Samantha M. Mowrer (San Francisco), David J. Kurzynski (South Elgin, Ill.) and Molly Poppie (Arlington Heights, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture (e.g., physical storage media) to deduplicate common devices across multiple dat...