ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,301, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to PERGLE Labs Inc. (Ottawa).
"Elimination tournament draw arrangement" was invented by Cristian Pergel (Ottawa).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for creating compact visual representations, or renderings, of elimination tournament draws. The method generates a compact rendering for a more inclusive bracket by composing the pair of compact renderings of its two included brackets of the previous round, along the direction designated for the more inclusive bracket's round, and always alternating the direction of composition, between horizontal and vertical, from one round to the next. The render...