ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,788, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to The Nielsen Co. (US) LLC (New York).

"Monitoring encrypted network traffic data" was invented by Anton Kljun (Bloke, Slovenia), Joseph Kerkes (Lutz, Fla.), Julio Cesar Villasante (Westchase, Fla.), Marko Panger (Plavje, Slovenia) and Jernej Mihelj (Sezana, Slovenia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, a method is described. The method includes detecting a first data packet transmitted through a wide area network (WAN), the first packet representing media presented at a client device of a plurality of client devices at a media exposure measurement location, each client device having a res...