US Patent Issued to The Nielsen Company (US) on Aug. 12 for "Methods and apparatus to monitor environments" (Florida, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,521, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to The Nielsen Co. (US) LLC (New York).

"Methods and apparatus to monitor environments" was invented by Morris Lee (Palm Harbor, Fla.) and Alejandro Terrazas (Santa Cruz, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus to monitor environments are disclosed. Example audience measurement devices disclosed herein execute, in connection with a first frame of data, a three-dimensional recognition analysis on an object detected in an environment within a threshold distance from a sensor. Disclosed example audience measurement devices also detect that the object has moved outside the threshol...