ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,762, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to The Nielsen Co. (US) LLC (New York).

"Methods and apparatus to calibrate return path data for audience measurement" was invented by Balachander Shankar (Tampa, Fla.), Jonathan Sullivan (Hurricane, Utah), Molly Poppie (Arlington Heights, Ill.), John Charles Coughlin (Oldsmar, Fla.), Paul Chimenti (Tampa, Fla.), Rachel Worth Olson (Elk Grove Village, Ill.), Samantha M. Mowrer (San Francisco), David J. Kurzynski (South Elgin, Ill.), Remy Spoentgen (Tampa, Fla.), Christine Heiss (Ridgewood, N.J.) and Shuangxing Chen (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example apparatus disclosed he...