ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,664, issued on June 23, was assigned to STATS LLC (Chicago).

"Automated image processing system" was invented by Paul Connors (Charlotte, N.C.), Rashmi Shivanna (Bangalore, India) and Ritu Rajiv Choudhari (Sangli, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing system receives an image for processing. The image includes at least a player of interest. The computing system executes an image processing workflow for automatically processing the image in accordance with standards set by an organization associated with the computing system. The executing includes removing, via a background module, background pixels from the image. The exe...