US Patent Issued to The Nielsen Company (US) on Oct. 7 for "Methods and apparatus to collect impressions associated with over-the-top media devices" (Florida, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,311, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to The Nielsen Co. (US) LLC (New York).

"Methods and apparatus to collect impressions associated with over-the-top media devices" was invented by Steven J. Splaine (Tampa, Fla.), Robert F. Pierce (Oldsmar, Fla.), Adrian Swift (Brooklyn, N.Y.) and Ankur Tandon (Riverview, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, and systems are disclosed to collect impressions associated with over-the-top media devices. An example apparatus includes memory; and at least one processor to execute instructions to access a first request, the first request from a user-controlled client device, the first req...