US Patent Issued to SportsMEDIA Technology on July 1 for "Automated offside detection and visualization for sports" (North Carolina Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,612, issued on July 1, was assigned to SportsMEDIA Technology Corp. (Durham, N.C.).

"Automated offside detection and visualization for sports" was invented by Gerard J. Hall (Durham, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention includes systems and methods for automated detection and visualization of offside positions. In soccer, offside is determined by the position of a player relative to the position of players on the opposing team and/or the soccer ball. The present invention provides systems and methods for tracking the location of players on a soccer field and for determining whether a player is in an offside positi...