US Patent Issued to The Nielsen Company (US) on March 11 for "Methods and apparatus for automatic TV on/off detection" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,367, issued on March 11, was assigned to The Nielsen Co. (US) LLC (New York).

"Methods and apparatus for automatic TV on/off detection" was invented by Michael Jordan Liss (Maitland, Fla.), Richard Lee Horner (St. Petersburg, Fla.), Charles Clinton Conklin (New Port Richey, Fla.) and James Joseph Vitt (Palm Harbor, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus are disclosed to determine a power state of a device. An example method includes determining respective counts for a plurality of measurements during a calibration period, the measurements indicative of an amount of power drawn by the device, determining a first th...