US Patent Issued to The Nielsen Company (US) on Feb. 24 for "Methods and apparatus for user identification via community detection" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,124, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to The Nielsen Co. (US) LLC (New York).

"Methods and apparatus for user identification via community detection" was invented by Jan Laurens Geffert (New York) and Lisa Marie Hamilton (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture for user identification via community detection are disclosed. Example instructions, when executed, cause at least one processor to at least access personally identifiable information to device links, build a device graph based on the personally identifiable information to device links, split components of the device grap...