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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jan. 24, 2023

Filed:

Oct. 27, 2021
Applicant:

The Nielsen Company (Us), Llc, New York, NY (US);

Inventors:

Andrej Barbis, Illirska Bistrica, SI;

Joze Arh, Koper, SI;

Marko Panger, Plavje, SI;

Marko Usaj, Ljubljana, SI;

Saso Vranek, Ilirska Bistrica, SI;

Assignee:

The Nielsen Company (US), LLC, New York, NY (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/442 (2011.01); G06Q 30/02 (2012.01); H04H 60/33 (2008.01); H04N 21/422 (2011.01); H02N 15/00 (2006.01); H04N 21/81 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/44213 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0201 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0242 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0272 (2013.01); H02N 15/00 (2013.01); H04H 60/33 (2013.01); H04N 21/42203 (2013.01); H04N 21/812 (2013.01); H04H 2201/50 (2013.01);
Abstract

Example levitating meter apparatus are disclosed. An example metering system includes a meter having a display to present indicia associated with a panelist. The meter has a microphone to receive audio output from a media device and circuitry to perform media monitoring. A base includes a cavity to receive at least a portion of the meter. The meter to magnetically levitate relative to the base to decouple the meter from the base. The base and the meter structured to fix a rotational position of the meter relative to the base when the at least the portion of the meter is received by the cavity of the base and the meter levitates relative to the base.


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