ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,870, issued on May 27, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Dynamically determining a region of effectiveness of athletes during game play based on predictive factors" was invented by Aaron K. Baughman (Silver Spring, Md.), Stefan Van Der Stockt (Austin, Texas), Craig M. Trim (Ventura, Calif.), John C. Newell (Austin, Texas) and Stephen C. Hammer (Marietta, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method includes monitoring, by a computing device, sensor data during gameplay of a sporting event; determining, by the computing device, predictive factors associated with a target based o...