ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,875, issued on May 19, was assigned to The Nielsen Co. (US) LLC (New York).

"Methods and apparatus to generate audience metrics using third-party privacy-protected cloud environments" was invented by Matthew VanLandeghem (Schaumburg, Ill.), Lianghua Shao (Duarte, Calif.), Jessica Brinson (Chicago), Sagar Sanghavi (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Jonathan Sullivan (Hurricane, Utah), Billie J. Kline (Inverness, Fla.), Mala Sivarajan (San Ramon, Calif.), Shruthi Koundinya Nagaraja (San Jose, Calif.), Logan Thomas (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Arushi Kumar (Hyattsville, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example system disclosed herein includes programm...