US Patent Issued to STATS on May 20 for "Prediction of NBA talent and quality from non-professional tracking data" (Illinois, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,767, issued on May 20, was assigned to STATS LLC (Chicago).

"Prediction of NBA talent and quality from non-professional tracking data" was invented by Andrew Patton (Chicago), Nathan Walker (Durham, N.C.), Matthew Scott (Chicago) and Alex Ottenwess (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing system identifies broadcast video for a plurality of games in a first league. The broadcast video includes a plurality of video frames. The computing system generates tracking data for each game from the broadcast video of a corresponding game. The computing system enriches the tracking data. The enriching includes merging play-by-play da...