ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,932, issued on May 13, was assigned to The Nielsen Co. (US) LLC (New York).
"Methods and apparatus to determine an audience composition based on voice recognition" was invented by John T. LiVoti (Clearwater, Fla.), Stanley Wellington Woodruff (Palm Harbor, Fla.), Rajakumar Madhanganesh (Tampa, Fla.) and Khushboo Agarwal (Oldsmar, Fla.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a controller to cause a people meter to emit a prompt for input of audience identification information at a first time and determine a first audience count based on the inp...