US Patent Issued to The Nielsen Company (US) on July 15 for "Methods, systems, articles of manufacture, and apparatus to estimate audience population" (American, Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,439, issued on July 15, was assigned to The Nielsen Co. (US) LLC (New York).

"Methods, systems, articles of manufacture, and apparatus to estimate audience population" was invented by Michael Sheppard (Holland, Mich.), Edward Murphy (North Stonington, Conn.), Molly Poppie (Arlington Heights, Ill.) and Ludo Daemen (Duffel, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed to estimate an audience population. An example apparatus includes processor circuitry; characteristic identifier instructions to be executed by the processor circuitry to determine whether respective ones of...