US Patent Issued to The Nielsen Company (US) on Jan. 27 for "Methods and apparatus to determine virtual WiFi data rate" (American, Slovene, Slovenian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,538,173, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to The Nielsen Co. (US) LLC (New York).

"Methods and apparatus to determine virtual WiFi data rate" was invented by Joseph Kerkes (Lutz, Fla.), Julio Villasante (Tampa, Fla.) and Marko Panger (Skofije, Slovenia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to determine virtual WiFi data rate. An example disclosed herein includes a control frame receiver to capture control frames from a user device. The example disclosed herein further includes a bitrate calculator to calculate a bitrate for each control frame by dividing a bitmap of a control ...