ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,837, issued on July 15, was assigned to Zebra Technologies Corp. (Lincolnshire, Ill.).

"Method, apparatus, and computer program product for collecting and displaying sporting event data based on real time data for proximity and movement of objects" was invented by Rodrigo Alonso (Lincolnshire, Ill.), Anthony R. Brown (Spring Grove, Ill.), James J. O'Hagan (McHenry, Ill.) and Michael A. Wohl (Talbott, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, apparatus, and computer program product for collecting and displaying sporting event data based on real time data for proximity and movement of objects are disclosed herein. The method inclu...