US Patent Issued to The Nielsen Company (US) on July 21 for "Methods, systems, articles of manufacture, and apparatus to estimate audience population" (American, Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,799, issued on July 21, was assigned to The Nielsen Co. (US) LLC (New York).

"Methods, systems, articles of manufacture, and apparatus to estimate audience population" was invented by Michael Sheppard (Holland, Mich.), Ludo Daemen (Duffel, Belgium), Edward Murphy (North Stonington, Conn.) and Molly Poppie (Arlington Heights, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to estimate an audience population. An example apparatus includes at least one memory; instructions in the apparatus; and processor circuitry to execute the instructions to: determine whether respective ones ...