US Patent Issued to The Nielsen Company (US) on Nov. 4 for "Methods and apparatus to identify media application sessions" (Florida Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,180, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to The Nielsen Co. (US) LLC (New York).

"Methods and apparatus to identify media application sessions" was invented by Khaldun Karazoun (Tampa, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus to identify media application sessions are disclosed. An example apparatus includes an audio interface to monitor an audio output of a media presentation device during a viewing session, a tone analyzer to identify one or more dual-tone multi-frequency (DTMF) tones presented by the audio output of the media presentation device, a session identification determiner to determine a session identification ...