Patents
US patents through Dec 31, 2025 · PatentsView, from the USPTO’s Open Data Portal · read Oct 27, 2026
65 patents granted to the 4 names below, as the owner printed on each patent when it was granted. A later sale, a lapse or an expiry is not read, so this is what was granted to NIQ Global Intelligence plc’s names, not what it holds today.
Patents granted
65
65 utility, 1976 to Dec 31, 2025
Granted in 2025
11
Against 5 in 2024 and 21 in 2023
Applications published
98
21 of them in 2025
Names they are printed under
4
a subsidiary
By yearGrantedApplications published
Each pair is one calendar year. Applications are published about eighteen months after filing, so the newest years read low.
What they are aboutgrants since 2021
Computer technology32
Medical technology18
IT methods for management12
Digital communication2
Audio-visual technology1
The main technology area of each patent, in the World Intellectual Property Organization’s 35 fields.
Under which name4 counted
Nielsen Consumer LLC a subsidiary
named as the applicant on its applications, in US
96 publishedNielsen Consumer LLC a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
0 publishedVIEWERSLOGIC LTD. a subsidiary
named as the applicant on its applications, in IL
1 publishedVIEWERSLOGIC LTD. a subsidiary
IL, as the owner printed on each patent
1 publishedNames not counted (4)
A.C. Nielsen Company Limited
Most of its patents print US; this name counts in FR, GB, MA, SE. 43 granted and 0 published under it are not counted.
Nielsen S.R.L.
Most of its patents print US; this name counts in PE. 10 granted and 0 published under it are not counted.
Panel International SA LLC
Most of its patents print GB; this name counts in US. 1 granted and 0 published under it are not counted.
Unrollme LLC
No country is printed for it. 0 granted and 1 published under it are not counted.
Newest grantseach row opens the USPTO’s own copy
| Granted | Patent | Title | Field | Owner as printed |
|---|
| Sep 9, 2025 | 12,412,186 | Methods, systems, articles of manufacture and apparatus for configurable segmentation of product assortments | IT methods for management | Nielsen Consumer LLC |
| Jul 15, 2025 | 12,361,676 | Methods, systems, articles of manufacture and apparatus for clustering vertices of an N-dimensional regular polygon using bearing angles | Computer technology | Nielsen Consumer LLC |
| Jun 10, 2025 | 12,327,425 | Methods, systems, articles of manufacture, and apparatus for decoding purchase data using an image | Computer technology | Nielsen Consumer LLC |
| Jun 3, 2025 | 12,322,195 | Methods, systems, articles of manufacture, and apparatus to determine related content in a document | Computer technology | Nielsen Consumer LLC |
| May 27, 2025 | 12,315,283 | Methods, systems, articles of manufacture, and apparatus for decoding images | Computer technology | Nielsen Consumer LLC |
| Apr 29, 2025 | 12,288,405 | Methods, systems, articles of manufacture and apparatus to extract region of interest text from receipts | Computer technology | Nielsen Consumer LLC |
| Apr 15, 2025 | 12,277,786 | Methods, systems, articles of manufacture and apparatus to categorize image text | Computer technology | Nielsen Consumer LLC |
| Feb 18, 2025 | 12,229,805 | Methods, systems, articles of manufacture, and apparatus for processing an image using visual and textual information | Computer technology | Nielsen Consumer LLC |
| Feb 18, 2025 | 12,229,741 | Methods, systems, articles of manufacture, and apparatus for decoding purchase data using an image | Computer technology | Nielsen Consumer LLC |
| Jan 7, 2025 | 12,190,618 | Methods, systems, articles of manufacture and apparatus to decode receipts based on neural graph architecture | Computer technology | Nielsen Consumer LLC |
Newest applications publishedan application is a clue, never a plan
| Published | Application | Title | Field | Owner as printed |
|---|
| Dec 18, 2025 | 2025/0384390 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO PLAN MULTI-VEHICLE DATA COLLECTION | IT methods for management | Nielsen Consumer LLC |
| Dec 4, 2025 | 2025/0371897 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, ARTICLES OF MANUFACTURE, AND APPARATUS TO DETERMINE CONFIDENCE METRICS ASSOCIATED WITH TEXT RECOGNITION MODELS AND CLASSIFICATION MODELS | Computer technology | Nielsen Consumer LLC |
| Dec 4, 2025 | 2025/0371560 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, ARTICLES OF MANUFACTURE AND APPARATUS FOR CONFIGURABLE SEGMENTATION OF PRODUCT ASSORTMENTS | IT methods for management | Nielsen Consumer LLC |
| Nov 13, 2025 | 2025/0348895 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO REDUCE SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO (SNR) OF MONADIC SCORES | IT methods for management | Nielsen Consumer LLC |
| Nov 13, 2025 | 2025/0348742 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, ARTICLES OF MANUFACTURE AND APPARATUS TO TRAIN MACHINE LEARNING MODELS USING SEMI-SUPERVISED SIGNALS | Computer technology | Nielsen Consumer LLC |
| Oct 30, 2025 | 2025/0335865 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, ARTICLES OF MANUFACTURE, AND APPARATUS TO MONITOR THE AVAILABILITY OF PRODUCTS FOR PURCHASE | IT methods for management | Nielsen Consumer LLC |
| Oct 23, 2025 | 2025/0329135 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, ARTICLES OF MANUFACTURE AND APPARATUS FOR CLUSTERING VERTICES OF AN N-DIMENSIONAL REGULAR POLYGON USING BEARING ANGLES | Computer technology | Nielsen Consumer LLC |
| Oct 23, 2025 | 2025/0328751 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, ARTICLES OF MANUFACTURE, AND APPARATUS FOR OBJECT-TO-OBJECT RECOMMENDATION USING LABEL PROTOTYPES AND SELF-ATTENTION | Computer technology | Nielsen Consumer LLC |
| Oct 2, 2025 | 2025/0307860 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO DETECT ANOMALIES IN PRICE SERIES DATA | IT methods for management | Nielsen Consumer LLC |
| Oct 2, 2025 | 2025/0307445 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, ARTICLES OF MANUFACTURE AND APPARATUS TO PROTECT DATASETS | Computer technology | Nielsen Consumer LLC |
What it applied for, 2024 to 2025: Computer technology 31 · IT methods for management 13 · Medical technology 2.
A patent is counted where the owner printed on it when it was granted carries the company’s own name, a former name, the name of a subsidiary its annual report lists, or its own name with a patent-holding phrase (Technology Licensing, Intellectual Property and the like), once the legal form, case and punctuation are set aside, and prints a country that name counts in. PatentsView’s data are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. Source: PatentsView's granted patents and pre-grant publications, disambiguated, from the USPTO's Open Data Portal, through Dec 31, 2025, read Oct 27, 2026.