ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,307, issued on March 17, was assigned to NEX Team Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Methods and systems for generating sports analytics with a mobile device" was invented by Qi Zhang (Hong Kong, Hong Kong), Wing Hung Chan (Hong Kong, Hong Kong), Keng Fai Lee (Cupertino, Calif.) and Wang Fai Ng (Hong Kong, Hong Kong).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for real-time generation of ball shot analytics are disclosed. The methods and systems perform steps for ball and posture detection, ball and posture flow generation, shot event identification and classification, and shot analytics generation based on identified shot events and s...