ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,851, issued on July 8, was assigned to The Nielsen Co. (US) LLC (New York).

"Systems, methods, and apparatus to monitor mobile internet activity" was invented by Achilleas Papakostas (Dallas) and Michael Andrew Yonker (Dallas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and apparatus to monitor mobile Internet activity are disclosed. An example apparatus includes at least one memory, machine-readable instructions, programmable circuitry to execute the machine-readable instructions to at least assign a first port of a proxy server to a mobile device associated with a panelist, cause transmission of configuration data to the mobile ...