ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,653, issued on April 29, was assigned to Pillar Vision Inc. (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Player monitoring systems and methods for compensating for network delay" was invented by Alan W. Marty (Menlo Park, Calif.) and John Carter (Elkmont, Ala.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A player monitoring system for compensating for network delays comprises a server that is configured to receive sensor data from multiple sensors at dispersed locations. In some embodiments, a server is configured to determine a delay associated with one network path carrying sensor data to the server and a delay associated with another network path carrying sensor data...