ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,876, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to The Nielsen Co. (US) LLC (New York).

"Methods and apparatus to estimate audience sizes of media using deduplication based on multiple vectors of counts" was invented by Michael R. Sheppard (Holland, Mich.), Jake Ryan Dailey (San Francisco), Damien Forthomme (Seattle), Jonathan Sullivan (Hurricane, Utah), Jessica Brinson (Chicago), Christie Nicole Summers (Baltimore), Diane Morovati Lopez (West Hills, Calif.) and Molly Poppie (Arlington Heights, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed examples to estimate audience sizes of media include a coefficient generator to determine coefficient valu...