ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,462, issued on April 7, was assigned to DISNEY ENTERPRISES INC. (Burbank, Calif.).

"System and method for tracking sports players to generate and apply receiver tracking metrics" was invented by Brian J. Burke (Burbank, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for tracking sports players to generate and apply receiver tracking metrics includes determining a catch/no-catch probability for a given pass route for a specific receiver using the player tracking data using a neural network model, determining a completion expected catch/no-catch estimation for a given pass route for a typical receiver using a classifier mode...