ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,916, issued on March 11, was assigned to NIL Management Systems LLC (Charlotte, N.C.).

"System and method for automated determination of name, image and likeness fulfillment" was invented by Richard Davies (Charlotte, N.C.), Kendall Alley (Charlotte, N.C.), James Grams (Charlotte, N.C.) and Kevin Gemas (Thiensville, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of automatically determining fulfillment of services performed by a first entity, the method including at a management server, determining one or more first entities having one or more service agreement obligations to one or more second entities, and extracting content data fr...