ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,603, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Stats LLC (Chicago).

"System and method for live counter-factual analysis in tennis" was invented by Robert Seidl (Munich), Christian Marko (Graz, Austria) and Patrick Joseph Lucey (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing system identifies data related to a tennis match between a first player and a second player. The data includes a current match state and a current in-match performance. The computing system generates an input data set that includes the data related to the tennis match. The generating includes modifying the current match state to assume that the first player will win...