US Patent Issued to The Nielsen Company (US) on Dec. 16 for "Methods and apparatus to perform computer-based monitoring of audiences of network-based media by using information theory to estimate intermediate level unions" (New York, Michigan, Florida, Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,468, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to The Nielsen Co. (US) LLC (New York).

"Methods and apparatus to perform computer-based monitoring of audiences of network-based media by using information theory to estimate intermediate level unions" was invented by Michael R. Sheppard (Holland, Mich.), DongBo Cui (New York), David Forteguerre (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Jessica Lynn White (Plant City, Fla.) and Edward Murphy (North Stonington, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture to perform computer-based monitoring of audiences of network-based media using information theory to estimate intermedi...