ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,587, issued on July 21, was assigned to Sportlogiq Inc. (Montreal).

"Systems and methods for detection, prediction, and value estimation of activities and events" was invented by Mehrsan Javan Roshtkhari (Beaconsfield, Canada), Bahareh Pourbabaee (Beaconsfield, Canada) and Oliver Norbert Schulte (Burnaby, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are described to analyze visual data and trajectory data from sports and games, to determine the content of the input data and detect actions and events, quantitatively measure their impact on the future activities and events and make predictions. In real-time, at every momen...