ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,047, issued on June 17, was assigned to Sports Data Labs Inc. (Royal Oak, Mich.).

"System for generating simulated animal data and models" was invented by Vivek Khare (Cupertino, Calif.), Mark Gorski (Royal Oak, Mich.), Stanley Mimoto (Bethel Island, Calif.) and Anuroop Yadav (Livingston, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for generating and distributing simulated animal data includes a step of receiving a set of real animal data at least partially obtained from one or more sensors that receive, store, or send information related to one or more targeted individuals. Simulated animal data is generated from at least a portion...