ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,797, issued on June 10, was assigned to The Nielsen Co. (US) LLC (New York).
"Methods and apparatus to collect media metrics on computing devices" was invented by Travis Berthelot (Lewisville, Texas), Sanjeev Kumar Viswambharan (Frisco, Texas), Pararth Mehta (Mumbai, India) and Pankaj Bengani (Mumbai, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed that collect media metrics on computing devices. An example apparatus includes at least one memory, instructions in the apparatus, and processor circuitry to execute the instructions to determine a permission level of a meter and, ...