ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,130, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to STATS LLC (Chicago).

"System and method for individual player and team simulation" was invented by Patrick Joseph Lucey (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing system retrieves historical event data for a plurality of games in a league. The historical event data includes (x,y) coordinates of players within each game and game context data. The computing system learns one or more attributes of each team in each game and each player on each team in each game. The computing system receives a request to simulate a play in a historical game. The request includes substituting a player th...