US Patent Issued to Jered Donald Aasheim on July 22 for "System and method for geolocating players on the field of play within video of American football" (Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,676, issued on July 22, was assigned to Jered Donald Aasheim (Eugene, Ore.).

"System and method for geolocating players on the field of play within video of American football" was invented by Jered Donald Aasheim (Eugene, Ore.) and Ethan John Aasheim (Eugene, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for constructing a grid model within video are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: overlay one or more field line, hashmark line, or sideline on one or more frame of video; construct a plurality of evenly spaced longitudinal lines parallel to the one or more field line; detect, using a neural network model, one or mor...