US Patent Issued to The Nielsen Company (US) on Oct. 20 for "Methods and apparatus for determining whether media presentation device is in an on state or an off state" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,040, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to The Nielsen Co. (US) LLC (New York).

"Methods and apparatus for determining whether media presentation device is in an on state or an off state" was invented by Daniel J. Nelson (Tampa, Fla.), Brian Scott Mello (Oldsmar, Fla.), Luc Zio (New Port Richey, Fla.) and David James Croy (Palm Harbor, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example apparatus to determine a state of a media presentation device are disclosed. A disclosed example apparatus is to determine contribution values from at least one of a signal measured from a sensing device or an output signal accessed from the presentation device,...