ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,110, issued on July 29, was assigned to STATS LLC (Chicago).
"System and method for predicting formation in sports" was invented by Jennifer Hobbs (Chicago), Sujoy Ganguly (Chicago) and Patrick Joseph Lucey (Chicago).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method of predicting a team's formation on a playing surface are disclosed herein. A computing system retrieves one or more sets of event data for a plurality of events. Each set of event data corresponds to a segment of the event. A deep neural network, such as a mixture density network, learns to predict an optimal permutation of players in each segment of the event based on t...