US Patent Issued to The Nielsen Company (US) on Feb. 24 for "Methods and apparatus to estimate cardinality through ordered statistics" (Michigan Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,292, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to The Nielsen Co. (US) LLC (New York).

"Methods and apparatus to estimate cardinality through ordered statistics" 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 estimate cardinality through ordered statistics are disclosed. In an example, an apparatus includes processor circuitry to selects a sample dataset from a first reference dataset of media assets and partitions the sample dataset into m mutually exclusive subsets of approximately equal size. The processor circuitry then estimates a ratio of a sa...