Independent Claim 7 — Detailed System Claim Mapping
Publicly Disclosed iRacing System Architecture Assessed Against Issued Claim 7. Claim 7 is an independent system claim and is mapped independently on its own issued wording: hardware, processors, communications, displays, input devices, server/network architecture, event-data processing, participant representation and user interaction are each assessed separately.
Granted U.S. Patent —US 12,528,021 B2
View Issued Claim 7Opening claim position
Claim 7 — Independent System Claim
Claim 7 is directed to a system for facilitating one or more users in virtually participating in a real-world racing event.
Unlike Claim 1, which is framed as a method, Claim 7 expressly claims a combination of:
- computer hardware associated with users;
- processors communicating with that hardware; and
- processor configuration performing the specified event-data, virtual-environment and user-participation functions.
Claim 7 is mapped independently on its own issued wording. The Claim 1 analysis of Section 06 is not reused or relabelled: system hardware, processors, communications, user-side equipment, displays, input devices, server/network architecture, virtual-environment functionality, event-data processing, participant representation and user interaction are each assessed separately. The controlling text is the issued claim set of US 12,528,021 B2.
Methodology
Controlling Analytical Sequence
- Issued Claim 7
- System component
- System function
- iRacing public evidence
- Entity / product attribution
- Assessment
- Evidentiary gap
- Whole-system claim conclusion
Four assessment terms are used throughout: Publicly Established, Strongly Corresponding, Partially Corresponding, and Not Established From Public Disclosures. No percentage scoring is applied and no infringement conclusion is drawn.
Claim 7 — exact system architecture
The Claimed System as a Combination
Real-world racing event
Event data feed
One or more processors
Processing
Multi-dimensional virtual environment
Virtualized participants
Corresponding movement
User avatar
Network / communication
User computer hardware
Display
User instructions
Race-path navigation
Virtual participation / competition
Claim 7 requires the claimed system architecture as a combination. Public evidence for individual hardware and software components does not by itself establish the entire system claim.
Claim 7 — system component breakdown
Analytical Groups 7A–7R
Limitation 7A
System for Virtual Participation in a Real-World Racing Event
Issued claim language — verbatim
“A system for facilitating one or more users in virtually participating in a real-world racing event, the system comprising”
Reproduced verbatim from the granted claim, without correction, paraphrase or reordering. Controlling text: issued claims of US 12,528,021 B2
System architecture — analytical restatement
System requirement
- The claim is not directed merely to a racing simulation system.
- The system purpose is tied to virtual participation in a real-world racing event.
Publicly disclosed iRacing architecture
iRacing operates virtual motorsport simulation, online user participation, official racing products, real-world motorsport partnerships and professional telemetry integration.
Evidence, source and date
iRacing publicly operates a subscription online motorsport simulation service with organised official series and licensed real-world motorsport content.
iRacing First PartyiRacing.com (first-party)Evergreen product site; accessed for this review August 2026
iRacing publicly documents formal relationships with real-world motorsport organisations and technology partners.
iRacing First PartyiRacing Partners (first-party)Accessed for this review August 2026
Entity / product attribution
- iRacing.com Motorsport Simulations, LLC
- NASCAR / INDYCAR (licensed content and sanctioning relationships)
System gap
Public evidence does not presently establish a particular iRacing system configured to facilitate virtual participation in a corresponding physical race through the full Claim 7 architecture.
Technical / legal noteThe preamble is analysed on its own terms because the remaining limitations define the system by reference to the real-world event.
Section closing
Claim 7 — Current System Position
iRacing publicly operates much of the surrounding computing, communication, simulation and user-participation infrastructure contemplated by the granted system claim.
But the central physical-event-data-to-event-participant system bridge is not presently established from the public record.
Strategic significance
Because iRacing already possesses the surrounding system architecture, integration of real-world race-event data and event-driven physical participant representations would move the technology materially closer to the territory defined by Claim 7.
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Dependent System Claims 8–12
Claim 8
User performance data
Claim 9
2D / 3D environment
Claim 10
Modifiable conditions
Claim 11
Modifiable equipment
Claim 12
Racing surface
These dependent system claims will be assessed independently as Claim 7 plus their respective additional limitations.