ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,916, issued on July 21.
"Baseball players' rating system" was invented by Alain Chacon (Miami) and Serafin Dominguez (New York).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for real-time rating and rankings of baseball players, which includes a server, one or more databases, and a ranking processing engine with a machine learning module. The system is accessible via a network by a plurality of clients, each of which includes a software application for displaying the ratings and statistics of baseball players. The system uses a plurality of performance parameters and a plurality of weighting factors for weighting the performance parameters....