US Patent Issued to The Nielsen Company (US) on Sept. 22 for "Methods and apparatus to determine sources of media presentations" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,462, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to The Nielsen Co. (US) LLC (New York).

"Methods and apparatus to determine sources of media presentations" was invented by Joseph Kerkes (Lutz, Fla.) and Mark Richard Cave (Palm Harbor, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example apparatus disclosed herein are to obtain, from a network monitor, an address associated with one or more network communications used to convey a media stream to a first input device of a plurality of input devices in communication with a media device, query one or more data structures based on the address to identify a first input source of the media device, the one or...