US Patent Issued to The Nielsen Company (US) on April 29 for "Methods and apparatus to determine when a smart device is out-of-tab" (Illinois, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,494, issued on April 29, was assigned to The Nielsen Co. (US) LLC (New York).

"Methods and apparatus to determine when a smart device is out-of-tab" was invented by Michael Evan Anderson (Chicago), Samantha M. Mowrer (San Francisco), Robert Gottesman (Chicago) and Astha Jain (El Cerrito, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to determine whether a smart device is in-tab are disclosed. An example apparatus includes memory; instructions in the apparatus; and processor circuitry to execute the instructions to: provide smart television data from a smart television as an input to a mo...