US Patent Issued to The Nielsen Company (US) on April 21 for "Methods and apparatus to credit media presentations for online media distributions" (Texas, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,720, issued on April 21, was assigned to The Nielsen Co. (US) LLC (New York).

"Methods and apparatus to credit media presentations for online media distributions" was invented by Achilleas Papakostas (Dallas) and Susan Cimino (Tampa, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus to credit media presentations for online media distributions are disclosed. Example methods and apparatus determine a presenter of a media session based on a user agent identifier extracted from a proxy record associated with the media session, and in response to determining that the user agent identifier does not identify a publisher, identify a...