ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,622, issued on March 18, was assigned to COMPUSPORT INC. (Rouyn-Noranda, Canada).

"Billiard monitoring and management system and method" was invented by David Bouchard (Rouyn-Noranda, Canada), Francis Cote (Rouyn-Noranda, Canada), Nil Gaudet (Rouyn-Noranda, Canada) and Christian Lavallee (Rouyn-Noranda, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for automatic computer monitoring and management of a billiard game comprises a controller comprising a memory of processor executable code and a database of billiard game information, an image capturing system for capturing real time images of the billiard game and providing the control...