ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,362, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to The Nielsen Co. (US) LLC (New York).

"Methods and apparatus for co-viewing adjustment" was invented by Jonathan Ouegnin (Wendell, N.C.), Joshua Zinzer (Yorkville, Ill.), Lauren Howard (Chicago), Balachander Shankar (Tampa, Fla.) and Michelle Gelman (Reno, Nev.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus disclosed herein can be used to perform co-viewer adjustment. An example apparatus or viewership adjustment includes at least one memory, machine readable instructions, and processor circuitry to execute the machine readable instructions to determine compliant and non-compliant househol...