ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,340, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to DK Crown Holdings Inc. (Boston).

"Systems and methods for model evaluation using prior data" was invented by Luke Joshua Redman (London), John Taylor McIvor (London), Robin Mohseni (Billericay, Great Britain), John Joseph Sweeney (Westford, Mass.) and William Haller Coiner Jr. (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for model evaluation using prior data are disclosed. A system can store a set of inputs provided to a first model to generate first data points for a first live event. Each input of the set of inputs can include a respective state of the first live event. The sys...