US Patent Issued to The Nielsen Company (US) on Feb. 17 for "Methods and apparatus to virtually estimate cardinality with global registers" (Michigan Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,693, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to The Nielsen Co. (US) LLC (New York).

"Methods and apparatus to virtually estimate cardinality with global registers" was invented by Michael R. Sheppard (Holland, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture to virtually estimate cardinality with global registers are disclosed. An example apparatus includes processor circuitry to s assign subsets of a sample dataset to a shared global register array, the shared global register array having a first number of registers, the sample dataset selected from a reference dataset of media assets; identify ...