US Patent Issued to STATS on June 30 for "Method and system for interactive, interpretable, and improved match and player performance predictions in team sports" (American, Spanish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,770, issued on June 30, was assigned to STATS LLC (Chicago).

"Method and system for interactive, interpretable, and improved match and player performance predictions in team sports" was invented by Hector Ruiz (Barcelona, Spain), Sujoy Ganguly (Chicago), Nathan Frank (Chicago) and Patrick Lucey (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of generating an outcome for a sporting event is disclosed herein. A computing system retrieves tracking data from a data store. The computing system generates a predictive model using a deep neural network. The one or more neural networks of the deep neural network generates one or more embeddi...