US Patent Issued to The Nielsen Company (US) on March 4 for "Methods and apparatus to detect a presence status" (Florida, New Jersey, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,244,894, issued on March 4, was assigned to The Nielsen Co. (US) LLC (New York).

"Methods and apparatus to detect a presence status" was invented by Meryem Berrada (Clearwater, Fla.), Ronny Lerch (San Antonio, Fla.), John Stavropoulos (Edison, N.J.), Alexander Topchy (New Port Richey, Fla.) and John Zoldos (Albany, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed to detect a presence status. An example apparatus includes media identification circuitry to generate first signatures representative of first audio data associated with a monitored media device, a comparator to obtain se...