US Patent Issued to STATS on April 22 for "Interactive formation analysis in sports utilizing semi-supervised methods" (German, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,056, issued on April 22, was assigned to STATS LLC (Chicago).

"Interactive formation analysis in sports utilizing semi-supervised methods" was invented by Thomas Seidl (Munich), Michael Stockl (Munich) and Patrick Joseph Lucey (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing system identifies player tracking data and event data corresponding to a match. The match includes a first team and a second team. The player tracking data includes coordinate positions of each player during the event. The event data defines events that occur during the match. The computing system divides the player tracking data into a plurality of segments ba...