ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,789, issued on March 25, was assigned to Genius Sports SS LLC (Los Angeles).

"Determining tactical relevance and similarity of video sequences" was invented by Vivek Jayaram (Los Gatos, Calif.), Nikhil Mitra (Los Angeles) and Kevin Squire (Pacific Palisades, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for finding and ranking video sequences that contain tactical sequences (e.g., an uninterrupted portion of a sporting event) that are similar to tactical event content in a target video sequence, such as those occurring in sports, include learning and labelling (e.g., through use of metadata and the like) tactically signi...