US Patent Issued to The Nielsen Company (US) on Oct. 28 for "Methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture to identify candidates for media asset qualification" (Florida, Alabama Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,373, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to The Nielsen Co. (US) LLC (New York).

"Methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture to identify candidates for media asset qualification" was invented by Raghuram Ranganathan (Tampa, Fla.), David Howell Wright (Safety Harbor, Fla.), James Petro (Dunedin, Fla.), Daniel Nelson (Tampa, Fla.) and Deborah Cross (Troy, Ala.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed to identify candidates for media asset qualification. Example apparatus disclosed herein include a media creditor to determine whether to credit a first media asset to linear me...