ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,005, issued on May 13, was assigned to Gracenote Inc. (New York).

"Methods and systems for determining accuracy of sport-related information extracted from digital video frames" was invented by Jeffrey Scott (Oakland, Calif.), Markus Kurt Peter Cremer (Orinda, Calif.), Nishit Umesh Parekh (Woodland Hills, Calif.) and Dewey Ho Lee (Berkeley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing system determines accuracy of sport-related information extracted from a time sequence of digital video frames that represent a sport event, the extracted sport-related information including an attribute that changes over the time sequence. The com...