ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,536, issued on Sept. 23.

"Methods and systems for facilitating playing soccer based on RFID" was invented by Charles Cooper (San Pedro, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides methods and systems for facilitating playing soccer based on RFID. The methods and systems may include receiving a request from a user, generating a radio tracking indication, transmitting the radio tracking indication to a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) reader, emitting interrogating radio waves, receiving returned radio wave, generating ball tracking data, receiving target data from at least one target sensor, retrieving g...