ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,447, issued on April 29, was assigned to SportsMEDIA Technology Corp. (Durham, N.C.).

"Systems and methods for providing secure data for wagering for live sports events" was invented by Gerard J. Hall (Durham, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for live sporting event wagering with data security and integrity are disclosed. At least one input capture device and at least one user device are constructed and configured in network communication with at least one computing platform. The at least one input capture device is configured to transmit live input data relating to a live sporting event to the at least one comp...