ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,350, issued on April 7, was assigned to The Nielsen Co. (US) LLC (New York).

"Methods, systems, articles of manufacture, and apparatus for adaptive metering" was invented by Travis Berthelot (Lewisville, Texas), Nigel Smith (Richardson, Texas), Sanjeev Viswambharan (Frisco, Texas), Achilleas Papakostas (Dallas), Pankaj Bengani (Mumbai, India) and Pararth Sanjiv Mehta (Vadodara, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, articles of manufacture, and apparatus for adaptive metering are disclosed. An example apparatus disclosed herein includes a condition analyzer to determine a condition associated with a mobile device, a m...