ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,102, issued on April 22, was assigned to Stats LLC (Chicago).

"System and method for merging asynchronous data sources" was invented by Alex Ottenwess (Chicago), Matthew Scott (Chicago), Ken Rhodes (Chicago) and Patrick Joseph Lucey (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing system identifies broadcast video data for a game. The computing system generates tracking data for the game from the broadcast video data using computer vision techniques. The tracking data includes coordinates of players during the game. The computing system generates optical character recognition data for the game from the broadcast video data by apply...