US Patent Issued to The Nielsen Company (US) on Dec. 30 for "Methods and apparatus to determine a frequency distribution for data in a database" (Michigan, Utah Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,315, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to The Nielsen Co. (US) LLC (New York).

"Methods and apparatus to determine a frequency distribution for data in a database" was invented by Michael R. Sheppard (Holland, Mich.) and Jonathan Sullivan (Hurricane, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed examples access data from a database, the data stored across multiple registers of the database; determine (a) a maximum rank for each of the multiple registers and (b) a maximum rank count for each of the multiple registers; determine a frequency distribution based on the maximum ranks and the maximum rank counts; and generate a report includi...